New Jersey Attractions and Oddities
All the weird attractions, hidden sights, and unusual places in New Jersey. Visitor Tips, news, stories, field reports. City roadtrip recommendations: Atlantic City
Also see: Gone But Not Forgotten - Closed classic attractions
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Almonesson: Backyard Fairy Garden - Asbury Park: Eyeless Lizard-Skin JFK Head
- Asbury Park: Giant Watering Playground
- Asbury Park: Morro Castle Disaster Memorial
- Asbury Park: Paranormal Museum and Bookstore
- Asbury Park: Silverball Pinball Museum
- Asbury Park: Tillie at The Wonder Bar
- Asbury: Birthplace of Liver-Eating Johnson
- Atlantic City: Bert Parks Crowns You Miss America
- Atlantic City: Birthplace of Atlantic City Casino Gambling
- Atlantic City: Caesar's Horse-Drawn Chariot
- Atlantic City: Chicken Bone Beach
- Atlantic City: Frank Sinatra's Used Towel, Enshrined
- Atlantic City: Home of the Miss America Pageant
- Atlantic City: Korean War Memorial
- Atlantic City: Miss America Crowns You
- Atlantic City: The Steel Pier
- Atlantic City: Totally Hot Lady Liberty
- Atlantic City: Tour the World's Largest Musical Instrument
- Atlantic Highlands: 9/11 Memorial - Eagle Clutching Mangled I-Beam
- Avenel: Hulking Robotoid Fireman of Metal
- Banegat Light: Clam of International Cooperation
- Bayonne: Chuck Wepner: The Bayonne Bleeder
- Bayonne: Giant 9/11 Teardrop Memorial
- Bayville: Big Champagne Bottle
- Bayville: Cosmos Tow Truck on Roof
- Bayville: The Bayville Dinosaur
- Beach Haven: Giant Salt Water Taffy
- Beachwood: Diner Dinosaur
- Beemerville: Space Farms Zoo and Museum
- Belmar: Alan the Robot
- Belmar: Springsteen Guitar
- Berkeley Heights: Deserted Village of Feltville
- Blackwood: Nitro Girl: Uniroyal SuperGal
- Brick: Angel in Anguish
- Bridgewater: Hindu Temple
- Buena: Musical Robots
- Buttzville: Hot Dog Johnny's
- Caldwell: Piece of Grover Cleveland's Wedding Cake
- Camden: Battleship New Jersey
- Camden: Big Golden Propeller
- Camden: Statue of First Man at the North Pole
- Camden: The Coolidge Tree: More than a Name
- Cape May Point: Crumbling Wreck of a Concrete Ship
- Cape May: Climb the Anti-Sub Tower, See the Dummies
- Cape May: Elaine's Haunted Mansion Restaurant
- Cape May: Memorial Statue to Dead Fishermen
- Cape May: The Ugly Mug
- Carteret: Beatles Mural from the 1970s
- Chesterfield: Cannonball in a Wall
- Cliffside Park: Palisades Amusement Park Site
- Colts Neck: Phalanx Utopian Community
- Columbia: Lakota Wolf Preserve
- Cookstown: M56 Scorpion Tank Destroyer
- Cresskill: 563 Flu Victims Died Here
- Deerfield: Carpet Viking Statue
- Denville: Hunan Taste: Gaudy Restaurant
- Deptford: First Flight in America
- Eatontown: Stumpy's Hatchet House
- Edison: Light Dispelling Darkness - WPA Art
- Edison: World's 2nd Largest Light Bulb
- Egg Harbor City: Big Renault Wine Bottle
- Egg Harbor Township: 20-Foot-Tall California Raisin
- Egg Harbor Township: Storybook Land
- Elizabeth: Obscure Challenger Memorial
- Flemington: Northlandz
- Forked River: Painted Rock - American Flag Rock
- Forked River: Popcorn Park Zoo
- Franklin Township: Big Cow of Middlebush
- Franklin: Mine Replica, Glow-in-the-Dark Rocks
- Franklin: Zinc Miner Statue
- Freehold: Adventure to Health, Transparent Woman
- Freehold: Bogus Molly Pitcher Spring
- Freehold: Bread Dough Lincoln
- Gillette: Grave of Leo the Lion
- Glassboro: Knowledge is Power
- Glendora: Cookie Jar House: A-Bomb Proof
- Glendora: Gabreil Daveis Tavern - Stains and Spirits
- Great Meadows: Shades of Death Road
- Greenwich: Tea Burners Monument
- Grovers Mill: Martian Landing Site Monument
- Grovers Mill: Water Tower Mistaken for a Martian
- Haddon Heights: Bakery's Fiberglass Menagerie
- Haddonfield: First Dinosaur Discovered
- Haddonfield: Haddy: Statue of World's First Dinosaur
- Hainesport: Big Rusty the Troll
- Hamburg: Gingerbread Castle
- Hammonton: Robot Auto Part Sculptures
- Hammonton: Ronald Reagan Rock
- Hancocks Bridge: Bayonet Massacre House
- Harvey Cedars: Big Clam Shell
- Hightstown: US Army Parachute Test Platoon Monument
- Hillside: Elaborate Grave of Singin' Sam
- Hoboken: Frank Sinatra Birthplace Star
- Holmdel: Father of Radio Astronomy - Jansky Monument
- Holmdel: Horn Antenna: Big Bang Detector
- Holmdel: United States War Dog Memorial
- Holmdel: Vietnam Era Museum & Educational Center
- Holmdel: World's Largest Transistor
- Jersey City: Carpet-Clutching Muffler Man
- Jersey City: Former World's Largest Clock
- Jersey City: Polish Massacre Memorial
- Jersey City: Quiet! Water's Soul Hushes NYC
- Jersey City: Tunnels, Crypts - Historic Jersey City Cemetery
- Kearny: Four Chaplains Monument
- Lafayette: Deer UFO Sign
- Lafayette: Hachi, Loyal Dog of Japan
- Lakehurst: Crash Site of the Hindenburg
- Lakehurst: Hindenburg, Jersey Devil, Stuffed Dog
- Lambertville: Grave of Washington's Last Pallbearer
- Landisville: Shrine of Padre Pio, Saintly Stigmatic
- Leonardo: Quick Stop seen in the movie "Clerks"
- Leonia: Field Station: Dinosaurs
- Liberty Corner: Golf Club used on the Moon
- Linden: Mercedes Benz Tombstone
- Linwood: Grave of Rex the Wonder Dog
- Little Falls: Yogi Berra Museum
- Long Branch: Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" House
- Long Branch: President Garfield Died Here
- Long Branch: Windmill-Shaped Hot Dog Stand
- Longport: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Lumberton: Air Victory Museum
- Lyndhurst: Heroine of the Kingsland Explosion
- Lyndhurst: Medieval Times Dinner Theatre
- Magnolia: Muffler Man: Tire Guy
- Manasquan: Seven Tories Hanged Here
- Manchester: Brooksbrae Brick Factory Art
- Maplewood: Ultimate Frisbee Monument
- Margate City: Food Truck-Shaped Building
- Margate City: Lucy the Elephant
- Marlton: Smiley Face Water Tower
- Matawan: Matawan Creek Shark Mural
- Matawan: Shark Attack Monument
- Matawan: Shark Attack Plaque
- Mays Landing: Brass Model of USS New Jersey
- Mays Landing: Hubcap Pyramid
- Medford: Killed Making Washington's Gunpowder
- Metuchen: Three Stooges Tombstone
- Middletown: Evil Food Circus Clown
- Middletown: Vito Genovese's Mount Vesuvius Volcano
- Middletown: WW2 Coastal Battery Big Gun
- Millville: 4,750 Hot Wheels
- Millville: Museum of American Glass
- Millville: Tooth Repair Crew
- Millville: World's Almost-First Vietnam Memorial
- Montclair: Buzz Aldrin Rock
- Montclair: Crazy Cartoon Mural
- Montclair: Grave of Mother
- Montclair: Large Head, Ear To Ground
- Moorestown: Cornfield Cruiser - USS Rancocas (LS-1)
- Moorestown: Flexible Flyer Museum
- Moorestown: Nipper Statues: Dog With Roots
- Morris Plains: 9/11 Memorial
- Morristown: Frank and Buddy, Seeing Eye Dog
- Morristown: The Guinness Collection of Automata
- Mount Holly: 200-Year-Old Haunted Prison
- Mount Holly: Toll Booth Saddle Shop: Horse Heads
- Mount Laurel: Steve Sabol and his NFL Camera
- Netcong: Wild West City
- New Brunswick: Parking Lot Grave of "Brandy"
- New Brunswick: Site of Tree from Joyce Kilmer's "Trees"
- New Gretna: Big Concrete Champagne Bottle
- Newark: Catacombs of St. Joseph
- Newark: Giant Steel Hockey Player
- Newark: Toll Booth Collector
- Newfield: Matchbox Road Museum
- Newton: Cave Grave
- Newton: Tiny House of Newton
- North Bergen: Pyramid Tomb of C.F. Harms
- North Wildwood: Lollipop Motel
- Northfield: Atlantic City's First Resident, Buried in a Traffic Circle
- Oak Ridge: Fairy Tale Forest
- Ocean City: Muffler Man - Pirate
- Ocean City: Noah's Ark
- Ogdensburg: Mine Tour, Largest Display of Fluorescent Rocks
- Ortley Beach: Muffler Man - Barnacle Bill
- Palisades Park: Memorial to Korean Comfort Women of WWII
- Paramus: Washington Kneeling in Prayer
- Parlin: Mass Grave of World War I Ammo Plant Disaster Victims
- Paterson: Great Falls of Patterson
- Paterson: Lou Costello Statue
- Paulsboro: Softball Field Lighthouse
- Paulsboro: Statue Covered Lawn
- Pennsauken: 9/11 Rescue Workers Tribute
- Pennsville: 2,436 Rebels Buried Here
- Perth Amboy: Terra Cotta Washington
- Phillipsburg: Steel Dinosaurs
- Plainsboro: Elsie the Cow Exhibit
- Plainsboro: Tombstone of Elsie the Cow
- Port Monmouth: The Spy House
- Princeton: 30-Foot-Tall Backyard Buddha
- Princeton: Deadly Love Boat Bell of President and First Lady Tyler
- Princeton: Sea Blanket Springsteen
- Raritan: Manila John Basilone, Hero of Guadalcanal
- Raritan: Warren Harding Ended World War I Here
- Red Bank: 9/11 Memorial Marker
- Red Bank: Buddy Christ Statue, Kevin Smith Shrines
- Red Bank: Iron Workers on Lunch Break Sculpture
- Richland: Carved Tree of History
- Ringwood: Mine Shaft
- Rio Grande: Statue of One-Legged Franklin Menz
- River Vale: USS Enterprise Nameplate
- Robbinsville Twp: Hindu Temple
- Roosevelt: Colossal Head of FDR
- Rutherford: Multiplism Yard Art
- Saddle River: Nixon's Guardhouse
- Sandy Hook: Nike Missile Base Tours
- Sandy Hook: Nike Missile Explosion Memorial
- Sayreville: Brick Water Tower - Remember the Brick Factory
- Sea Girt: The Intelligent Whale: Ancient Submarine
- Seaside Heights: Boardwalk Fried Delicacies
- Seaside Heights: Muffler Man, Formerly Men
- Seaside Heights: Muffler Men of the Jersey Shore
- Seaside Heights: Seaside Heights Boardwalk Statues
- Shamong: Mighty Joe the Gorilla
- South Amboy: Jon Bon Jovi Rest Stop
- South Bound Brook: Ukrainian Tombstones and Tributes
- Stanhope: Waterloo Village: Ghost Town
- Tabernacle: Emilio Carranza Crash Monument
- Tinton Falls: World Trade Center Replica
- Toms River: Akron Airship Disaster Memorial
- Toms River: Carrier USS Randolph Anchor
- Toms River: Family on the Half-Shell
- Toms River: Insectropolis
- Toms River: Jersey Clam
- Toms River: Movie Amityville Horror House
- Totowa: Chapel of the Droopy Crosses
- Totowa: Light Bulb Grave of World's Greatest Electrician
- Trenton: American Gothic
- Trenton: Grounds for Sculpture: Giant Statues
- Trenton: Poe-Inspired Tombstone
- Trenton: Where Washington Recovered British Plunder
- Trenton: White City Staircase
- Union: World's Tallest Watersphere
- Verona: Kip's Castle
- Vincentown: Water Tank Robots
- Vineland: Artsy Giant Martini Glass
- Vineland: Fountain of Youth, Statue of Liberty
- Vineland: Palace of Depression
- Vineland: Tiny Folk Art Lady Liberty
- Wall Township: Atomic Fallout Shelter Theater
- Wall Township: Camp Evans and Marconi Hotel
- Wall Township: Giant Ant
- Wall Township: InfoAge: Museum of Vintage Tech and History
- Washington: 1922 Gas Station That Still Sells Gas
- Washington: Blue Army Shrine
- Wayne: Grave of Lad, a Dog
- Weehawken: Death Rock of Alexander Hamilton
- West Berlin: Diggerland USA
- West Creek: Chair on a Roof
- West Trenton: New Jersey State Police Museum
- West Windsor: War of the Worlds Coffee Shop
- West Windsor: War of the Worlds Martian Ship
- Whitehouse Station: Dress-Up Hippos
- Wildwood Crest: Doo Wop Capital of the World - Caribbean Motel
- Wildwood: 25-Foot-Tall Fire Hydrant for Dogs
- Wildwood: Castle Dracula Coat of Arms
- Wildwood: Doo Wop Experience Museum
- Wildwood: Ghost Ship
- Wildwood: Sea Captain with Peg Leg and Hook
- Willingboro Township: Futuro House
- Winslow Township: Shotgun BBQ Grill
- Winslow: Mr. Bill: Happy Halfwit Muffler Man
- Wood-Ridge: Bronze Statue of Rosie the Riveter
- Woodbridge: Stainless Steel Locomotive
- Woodstown: Cowboy Muffler Man
- Woodstown: Large Rocking Chair
- Woodstown: One-of-a-Kind Big Cow
- Wrightstown: Tow Mater and Doc Hudson
Gone But Not Forgotten
Closed and extinct places -- the classics and the quirky. A virtual revisit, even if it's just to milk them for one more chuckle...
- Absecon: Ship House
- Asbury Park: Tillie the Clown, Bumper Car Ladies
- Atlantic City: Atlantic City Historical Museum
- Atlantic City: Metal Mr. Peanut Statue
- Atlantic City: Skeleton of the Jersey Devil
- Atlantic City: Statue of Lenin
- Barrington: White Horse Statue on Tall Pole
- Bayonne: Misshapen Chuck Wepner Mural
- Cape May Point: Wreck of a 200-Year-Old British Warship
- Cape May: Big Bass in Yard
- Cliffwood Beach: Pirate Ship of Cliffwood Beach [1921-1993]
- East Brunswick: Mary Murray Ferry Derelict
- East Hamilton Township: Adventure Village
- Edison: Turned-Over Car
- Egg Harbor City: Junk Sculptures: Peterson's Garage
- Elmer: Wamsley's Texaco - Restored Petroliana
- Englishtown: 9-ft. tall Arabian Giantess
- Farmingdale: Car Parts Dinosaurs
- Florence: Adolf Hitler's Toilet
- Franklin Lakes: Gravity-Defying Exit Ramp
- Galloway: Stanley Hammell's Insulator Forest
- Greenwich: Flying Saucer - Futuro House
- Hackensack: U.S.S. Ling, World War II Sub
- Hightstown: 2nd Hand Shop
- Holmeson: Dracula Muffler Man Head
- Holmeson: Muffler Man - Halfwit
- Jamesburg: Greek's Playland, Stone Museum, and Clown
- Jersey City: Techno Echo - Shout in the Megaphone
- Keansburg: Wheel of Food
- Lambertville: Penis Bone Display
- Lodi: Bada Bing - Tony Soprano's Strip Club
- Lopatcong Township: .44 Magnum Pistol Mailbox
- Lumberton: Babylonian Fertility God Demon
- Mantua: Big Chainsaw Dental Sculpture
- Matawan: Sharkfest - 1916 Shark Attacks Festival
- Mays Landing: Milk Jug Lady
- Mount Holly: Mahalchik's Fabulous Fifty Acres
- New Gretna: Dinosaurs, Deities, and Artillery on Wall
- Newark: Beer Bottle Water Tower
- Princeton: Einstein Mini-Museum in Woolens Store
- Princeton: Soulful Head of Bruce Springsteen
- Rio Grande: Face on the Roof
- Runnemede: Mr. Softee Truck on Roof
- Seaside Heights: Boardwalk Sideshows
- Trenton: Big Metal Statue of King Lear
- Trenton: Capital Punishment Museum
- Trenton: Unconditional Surrender: Supersized Smoochers
- Wall Township: Circus Drive-In
- Wall Township: Missing Link Swimmer Statue
- Wayne: Fountains of Wayne
- Wildwood: Castle Dracula And Dungeon Boat Ride - Burned!
- Wildwood: Rooftop Pink Elephant
- Wildwood: Uncle Bill's Pancake House Mural
- Winslow: Tiny Church
