New Jersey

The weirdest thing about a zombie mall is not always the emptiness. Sometimes it is the stuff that…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 24

A river cuts clean through a mountain ridge. A 77-foot waterfall thunders behind old brick mills. Wild foxes…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 24

A shopping cart at The Leafy Basket can start innocently enough: a few avocados, maybe a bundle of…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

Deep beneath a quiet Sussex County town, ordinary-looking rock suddenly flashes electric green and fiery orange under ultraviolet…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

A pint of Blood Orange Blonde on the table, a plate of beer-battered fish and chips nearby, and…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

At one Bergen County sushi counter, an entire evening unfolds in a room with only a dozen seats.…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

A half-pound burger with onion rings, French fries, lettuce, and tomato still has a way of settling an…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

A plate of eggs, home fries, and pork roll can tell you plenty about a New Jersey diner,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

The front doors at Porta have seen a lot more than dinner plans. Before people were walking through…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

Eight million tulips are a pretty convincing reason to put down the beach chair. So are alpacas grazing…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 23

An old locomotive nose peeking through the brush near Winslow Junction can make you do a double take…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

A giraffe’s purple tongue curls around a lettuce leaf, a wolf pack answers one howl with another, and…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

The pastry case is the giveaway. At Defying Gravitea, the brownies look like brownies, the lemon bars look…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

Somewhere above the Delaware River, the ground turns into a staircase of loose rock and the highway below…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

A cold platter of oysters hits differently when the Atlantic is right there, doing its sparkly little performance…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

A boulder the size of a small house balances on three stone points in Morris County. Deep beneath…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

You hear it before you fully see it: the low electric whir of karts carving around corners, the…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

A wooden walkway floats above a Sussex County marsh, wolves howl from a mountainside preserve, and an old…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 22

The best part happens after the reel stops screaming. Someone on deck calls out, a fish flashes silver…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

A tiny wooden door appears at the base of a tree, and suddenly the trail feels less like…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

There is something wonderfully odd about finding a little slice of the 1950s sitting along Route 50 in…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

The best seat in the house is not always in the stadium. Sometimes it is a barstool in…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

A hummingbird does not enter politely. It appears like a green spark, freezes midair for half a second,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

There is a very specific kind of hunger that shows up after midnight. It is not looking for…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

The first surprise is how unimpressive the clay looks before anything happens. It just sits there, gray and…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

The first clue is the sound: that sharp little pop when the straw punches through the plastic seal,…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 21

Pull into the wrong part of the plaza and you might wonder if your GPS has developed a…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 20

A great bookstore visit usually starts with one innocent plan: pop in, grab one book, leave like a…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 20

The plate lands like it knows everyone is going to look. Three purple-tinted pancakes sit under a glossy…

By Duncan Edwards · Jul 20