Discovering New Jersey

Daily walking tours of the Sandy Hook Lighthouse are offered every half hour, up and down 95 steps plus a nine-rung ladder.

Every kind of critter is here, from fossilized arthropods to big, live bugs like millipedes, scorpions, hermit crabs, and yes, tarantulas.

The museum's gift shop offers authenticated pieces of the boardwalk for patrons to purchase and take home.

Even though "Dickens Fest" is not necessarily a moneymaker for the theatre company, it keeps tourism coming into the village, and was notable enough to have an encore as one of Historic Smithville's main attractions this fall.

Perhaps best described as a cross between a go-kart and a recumbent bike, the user-operated railroad rides around the Garrett Family Preserve are now available through a partnership between Revolution Rail Co. and Cape May Seashore Lines.

It last erupted somewhere between 360 and 440 million years ago, depending on who you ask.

These animals' unique stories are what keep people coming to the animal refuge — or keep coming back.

In his most famous song, Bruce Springsteen sang of what happens "beyond the Palace," and evoking the spirit of the long-defunct Palace Amusements is just part of the story behind the Silverball Museum Arcade on the Asbury Park boardwalk.

The Jersey Devil is not a strange, elusive being whose footprints have been spotted for centuries across South Jersey, says one New Jersey college professor who's done extensive research into the legend.