Think You Know New Jersey? 15 Incredible Places Hiding in Plain Sight
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A mine tunnel glowing electric green and red under ultraviolet light…
It can be 85 degrees in Ocean City, with sand still stuck…
There is a dangerous moment at an Amish market when the smell of warm…
There is a red-roofed diner on Route 130 in Westville with a backstory…
A rusted wheel half-buried beside a stream, a mansion wall with trees growing…
A few steps off the Rutgers–New Brunswick orbit, there is a restaurant where…
At one New Jersey museum, you can stare down a primitive human-powered…
Take Exit 13A off the New Jersey Turnpike, follow the signs toward Jersey…
There’s a particular kind of optimism required to pull into a New Jersey…
By the time the lunch crowd starts thinking about brisket, the brisket at Local Smoke BBQ has already put in a longer…
There is a particular moment every serious flea-market shopper knows: you…
A black-and-white owl above a storefront on Berlin-Cross Keys Road…
One minute you’re crawling along a North Jersey road with strip malls…
A miniature jukebox sits beside your booth, the room glows red, and somewhere…
A 24-ounce Delmonico that still comes in under $40. A steak in Carlstadt…
A hulking red gristmill from the 1840s stands just off Route 15 in Lafayette…
At 15 Fox Place, the dining room used to be somebody’s bedroom. In Belleville…
A set of century-old painted-glass doors is not what you expect to find while…
There is a particular moment at a good New Jersey buffet when your dinner…
There’s a moment at Vincent’s Homemade Ice Cream when ordering a simple cone stops being simple. You look at vanilla…
In Demarest, the average residential property-tax bill rose by $1,371 in one…
A bowling ball rolls down a lane while animated graphics ripple across…
Drive far enough from New Jersey’s interstates and strip malls…
There’s a $1 book rack outside 644A Cookman Avenue that can derail a perfectly…
Somewhere between the creak of an old hardwood floor and the first bite…
A weathered wooden depot, one set of railroad tracks, and a place called…
Imagine climbing a staircase inside a six-story elephant, peering out through…
A ribbon of tomato sauce spirals across the cheese while a pizza maker sends…
A few steps off a wooden platform, the ground suddenly feels very far away…
By lunchtime on a July Saturday, the smell of boardwalk pizza is competing with salt air, the arcade bells are firing…