Lucy the Elephant is a six-story, elephant-shaped wooden building in Margate City, New Jersey, standing 65 feet tall and covered in sheet tin. Built in 1881 as a real estate promotion, she’s now a National Historic Landmark and the oldest surviving roadside attraction in America, and you can actually walk up a spiral staircase inside…
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High Point Monument: Standing on Top of New Jersey (Literally)
The highest spot in New Jersey isn’t a mountain peak with a dramatic summit scramble. It’s a 220-foot granite obelisk sticking straight up out of the woods in the state’s far northwest corner, and you can drive right up to its parking lot. High Point Monument sits at 1,803 feet above sea level in Sussex…
Tillie: The Real Story Behind Asbury Park’s Grinning Boardwalk Face
If you’ve walked the boardwalk in Asbury Park, you’ve seen Tillie: that huge, grinning, slightly unsettling face that shows up on t-shirts, coffee mugs, and the side of the Wonder Bar. But here’s the part almost nobody tells you until you go looking for it — the Tillie you can photograph today isn’t the original….