Morristown National Historical Park in Morristown, New Jersey, preserves sites from George Washington's Continental Army winter encampments in 1776-77 and the harsher 1779-80 winter, known as one of the coldest on record, across 1,706 acres in four non-contiguous areas including Jockey Hollow with replica soldier huts, Washington's Headquarters at the Ford Mansion, Fort Nonsense, and the New Jersey Brigade site.
Resorts Casino Hotel is the historic first legal casino outside Nevada, located on the Atlantic City Boardwalk in New Jersey, USA, where it opened on May 26, 1978, transforming the former Chalfonte-Haddon Hall site into a gaming pioneer.
Battleship New Jersey Museum and Memorial in Camden, New Jersey, preserves the USS New Jersey (BB-62), the most decorated battleship in U.S. Navy history with service in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, the Cold War, and Middle East conflicts from 1942 until decommissioning in 1991.
Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, spans 1,212 acres on filled tidal flats along Upper New York Bay, offering stunning views of the Manhattan skyline, Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island from its 2-mile waterfront promenade.
The Seabrook-Wilson House, located in Port Monmouth, New Jersey, is one of the oldest surviving houses in the Bayshore region, with its earliest section dating back to around 1720.
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park sits on the northern tip of Long Beach Island in Ocean County, New Jersey, guarding the treacherous Barnegat Inlet with its shifting sandbars, swift currents, and shoals that challenged ships heading to New York Harbor.
Princeton University Art Museum in Princeton, New Jersey, houses over 117,000 works spanning ancient to contemporary art from around the globe, with strengths in Greek and Roman antiquities, Chinese and Japanese art, European paintings from Renaissance to modern, photography, prints, drawings, and growing contemporary collections.
Paterson Great Falls National Historical Park in Paterson, New Jersey, centers on the dramatic 77-foot-high, 260-foot-wide Great Falls of the Passaic River, the second-largest waterfall by volume east of the Mississippi, which powered America's first planned industrial city envisioned by Alexander Hamilton in 1791 through the Society for Establishing Useful Manufactures.
Bell Works in Holmdel, New Jersey, reimagines the iconic 2-million-square-foot Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, designed by architect Eero Saarinen and opened in 1962 as a hub for groundbreaking innovations like the horn antenna detecting cosmic microwave background radiation supporting the Big Bang theory.
The Essex County Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey is a well-known zoo set on 20 acres within the South Mountain Reservation, managed by the Essex County Park System.
Belmar Beach in New Jersey is a popular, well-maintained public beach known for its clean, spacious sandy shores and a one-mile-long boardwalk that offers picturesque views of the Atlantic Ocean.
The Tuckerton Seaport Museum in Tuckerton, New Jersey, is a working maritime village on 40 acres along Tuckerton Creek that preserves the Jersey Shore's baymen culture through 17 historic and recreated buildings linked by boardwalks, nature trails, and exhibits on fishing, boat building, decoy carving, and surfing.