Right near Sunset Beach, past the crowds hunting for “Cape May diamonds” on the sand, a plain concrete tower rises above the dunes like it’s still waiting for a fight that never came. This is the WWII Lookout Tower in Cape May, officially known as Fire Control Tower No. 23, and it’s the last freestanding…
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The SS Atlantus: New Jersey’s Crumbling Concrete Ghost Ship
If you walk to the end of Sunset Boulevard in Cape May Point and look out at the Delaware Bay, you’ll see something that looks like a broken piece of a parking garage sitting in the surf. That’s the SS Atlantus, a World War I cargo ship built entirely out of concrete, and it has…

