The Doo Wop Motel District is a two-mile stretch of Wildwood, New Jersey, where dozens of space-age motels from the 1950s and ’60s still stand, plastic palm trees, neon signs, kidney-shaped pools and all. Officially known as the Wildwoods Shore Resort Historic District, it’s the largest surviving collection of mid-century commercial resort architecture in the…
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The WWII Lookout Tower in Cape May: New Jersey’s Last Watchtower on the Coast
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…

