Hidden New Jersey

One of my favorite parts of exploring New Jersey is that there's always the chance of finding something extraordinarily cool in a spot y...

No matter where you go, you're bound to run into New Jersey. I just wasn't expecting it on Michigan Avenue in Chicago, embedded in t...

Sometimes when we find a historic spot, it sets us down a path of research that lands me in a far more different spot that I originally expe...

New Jersey was fertile ground for the development of the steamboat industry, whether in Nicholas Roosevelt's  side-mounted propulsion wh...

Its gilded dome shining on a bluff above the Delaware River, the New Jersey State House isn't exactly hidden, but if you were Governor R...

A secret corps of paratroopers from New Jersey were instrumental in the Allied victory on D-Day, during World War II. Their story was brief...

I'm particularly tickled when a site that's expected to present one story ends up revealing another. That's the experience we ha...

We Hidden New Jersey venturers always do our best to stay on the right side of the law and avoid unnecessary interaction with the authoritie...

A lot is being said today about the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and the unfortunate deaths of over 1500 people in th...

Bears in the Meadowlands? Bobcats stalking pigeons atop a Newark office building? These days, anything seems possible, with a surprising num...

New Jersey's Archives in Trenton hold a wealth of state-related documents dating back over 350 years, but few realize that the collectio...

Sometimes Hidden New Jersey spots jump out at us serendipitously, a phenomenon which seems to happen more often out of state. That was the c...

After checking out Riverview Cemetery, we made a quick pit stop at the Trenton Visitors Center in the old Masonic Lodge House located on Bar...

Since our trip to Fort Mott , it's been on our short list to get to Riverview Cemetery in Trenton. Not only is it an old graveyard, but ...