The world’s largest pipe organ isn’t tucked inside some grand European cathedral. It’s built into the walls of a sports and concert arena on the Atlantic City Boardwalk, hidden behind the same scoreboard that hangs over hockey games and Miss America. It’s called the Midmer-Losh, and with an official count of 33,112 pipes, it’s officially…
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The Colgate Clock: Jersey City’s Giant Timepiece With a Secret Twin
The Colgate Clock is a 50-foot-wide octagonal timepiece sitting at ground level on the Jersey City waterfront, staring straight across the Hudson River at Manhattan. It’s been glowing red at night since 1924, it was once billed as the largest clock on Earth, and — here’s the part most visitors never learn — it isn’t…
The South Mountain Fairy Trail in Millburn, NJ: A Guide to Every Fairy House Along the Loop
The South Mountain Fairy Trail is a free, roughly half-mile stretch of the white-blazed Rahway Trail inside South Mountain Reservation in Millburn, New Jersey, lined with dozens of handmade miniature houses tucked into tree roots, stumps, and hollows. There’s no official numbered map of every single house, because the collection is always shifting — old…


