Index of Roadside Oddities in Weird NJ
A handy reference guide to finding Roadside Oddities that have been featured in Weird NJ.
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Roadside Oddities
666 Mailbox (town??) 30: 8p
7 mile per hour Speed Limit sign on Route 22 (Watchung) 25: 45p
Abandoned black gas stations 24: 73
Abandoned building with old film posters in window (Roselle Park) 21: 12p
Abandoned car at diner for many years (Denville) 19: 49p
Abandoned Chevy on rooftop (Bivalve) 24: 85p
Abandoned Route 1 houses (Edison) 17: 28p
Abandoned stand with modernist faces (Barnegat) 30: 60p
Abe Lincoln grafitti (Neptune/Wall) 29: 54p
Absecon Ship House aka Neptune’s Garden aka Absecon Beach Camp (Absecon)
14: 20-21dp; 33: 82p
“Airmail” mailbox (Robbinsville) 25: 49p
Alfred E. Newman look-alike statue (Seaside/Lavalette) aka Ma Moo
6: 21; RG: 63; 27: 93p
Alligator tree (Sussex County) 22: 70p
America/New Jersey sign 26: 3p
“Anal” pig roast sign (Lawrenceville/Pennington) 30: 64p
Andy’s Antiques (Ledgewood) RG: 53p; 28: 28p
Angry farm sign – “Thieving Bastards Burn in Hell” (Roanoke, VA) 29: 98p
Angry sign outside the Mudtown Bunny Ranch (Mudtown) 18: 47p; 20: 6
Antique bath tubs along the Black Horse Pike (Atlantic City) RG: 55p
Antique steam engine and cars at Pine Creek Railroad (Allaire State Park) 20: 18
Archie’s Resale Shop (Meyersville) 7: 24p; 10: 49p; 16: 11; RG: 52p; 21: 15; 25: 10-11
Assyrian Bull God statue (Lumberton) 24: 1p, 71p; 25: 54d; 28: 58p; 29: 84
Attic Antique Store — Spectro-Chrometry Machine and the Pig (Long Beach Island)
22: 68p
“Baby-faced Breakfast” (Ocean City) 20: 68; 21: 12
aka “Scary-Face Breakfast Place”, Sunny Side Up Restaurant
Baby head with rooster coming out (Winslow) 28: 1p, 54p
“Bad Hair Day” house (Atlantic City) RG: 79p
Bakery Dummy of Le Jardin (Maplewood) RG: 35p
Balls on towing hitch (Lawrenceville) 33: 84p
Bally Total Fitness protest sign (Spotswood) 26: 80p
Beast statue (Hammonton) 24: 1p; 25: 13
Beatles mural at Kelly’s Pub (Carteret) 32: 58p-59p
“Because” grafitti (Middlesex County) 30: 75p; 31: 23
Bedrock USA statue display (Cripple Creek, CO) 30: 98p
“Beer is cheaper than gas, drink don’t drive sign” (Wantage) 32: 58p
Beer Street (Holmdel) 30: 64p
Belvidere Dinosaur Rock (Belvidere) 13: 50p
“Benny Go Home” road sign (Brick) 29: 99p
Berlin Farmer’s Market (Berlin) RG: 58
Bert Parks Singing Statue (Atlantic City) 15: 44; RG: 51p
Betty Beavers gas station (Otego, NY) 30: 97p
Bewitched street names (Brick) 25: 51d
“B Forgive Me” stencilled sign (Rochelle Park) RG: 10p; 24: 71p
Bicycle Tree 31: 18p
Big bottle at Budweiser brewery 1-3: 23
“Big Pig” anti-government float (Alpine) 27: 49p
Big rusted metal balls along the Skuykill River (Pennsylvania) 30: 97p
“Bitchin’ Van” (Brick) 29: 56p
Black and white “Toynbee” tile message in N.J. Turnpike (Bellmawr) 22: 74p; 24: 19
Black and white “Toynbee” tile message in N.J. Turnpike (Union) 33: 15
Boat House — ship-shaped house (Hawthorne) 14: 22p; 15: 46
Bob Saget faces and messages (Middletown) 29: 57p
Body of SpongeBob Squarepants on Burger King roof (Cedar Grove) 27: 54p
“Bones of Belmar” skeleton in window (Belmar) 29: 57p
“Boob Bulb” mural on Decker Road (Flemington) 18: 45p
“Boobie Tree” on Union Valley Road (West Milford) 29: 56p
Bottles and rocks set on Route 287 median (Parsippany) 21: 16p
Bottle-shaped building (Bayville) 1-3: 23
Boulevard of Broken Dreams (Belmar) RG: 42p
Boy Roads – Attaboy, Gayboy, Handyboy, Highboy & Orphanboy (Middletown)
18: 48p; 19: 8; RG: 48p
Bra on stop sign 32: 46p
Bridge to Nowhere
Chatham 11: 4
Manahawkin 26: 91p; 27: 93p; 32: 25p
Bust of Mercury on gates to Hellis Farms (Jobstown) 22: 1p
Buttonwoods – “New Jersey’s Deliverance” (Wayne)
16: 68p-71; 17: 8-9; 18: 9-10; 19: 78; LH: 98-100; 21: 87d; 30: 15; 31: 23;
NP: 39p-43p
Caboose house (Middletown) RG: 79p
Call Girl dummy in phonebooth (Summerville, PA) 28: 98p
Car engine mailbox (town??) 30: 8p
Car in dumpster (Deptford) 21: 16p
Carpet car (Atlantic City) 28: 55p
Car tailgate stuck high up in tree (South Brunswick) 20: 68
“Casey” message building (Lafayette) 29: 69p
Castle Stump (Hightstown) 25: 42p
“Cat” for sale at Wooley’s Fish Market (Howell) 31: 75p
Cat hospital/Chinese restaurant sign (Brick) 26: 80p
“Caution Weird Load” car (Garden State Parkway) 21: 64
Cherubs and slayer graffiti (Point Pleasant) 32: 46p
Chick-fil-A “Eat Mor Chikin” sign 21: 64p
Chicky Galore restaurant sign (Woodbridge) 23: 70p
see Clinton Road
Columbus Farmer’s Market race-changing sign (Burlington County) 23: 71p
Confusing East Lakeside Drive signs (Highland Lakes) 22: 74p
Confusing enter/exit sign (Pittstown) 30: 64p
Confusing entrance sign (North Haledon) 23: 70p
Confusing exit sign at Wayne Mountain View Plaza (Wayne) 32: 46p
Confusing price sign (Paterson) 31: 74p
Confusing speed limit sign (town?) 28: 57p
Confusing street sign near Brunswick Square Mall (East Brunswick) 31: 74p
Conservative signs of Route 17 (Hasbrouck Heights) 20: 68
Controversial living signs (East Brunswick) 27: 4
Convention Hall tombstone (Asbury Park) 24: 66p
Country boy statue at Route 30 hamburger place (Atlantic City) 26: 50p
Cowboy Steakhouse, three-story cowboy sign (Forked River) 5: 20p; RG: 20p
Cow sculpture on the move (Edison) 20: 66p
Crazy crossroads — intersection of Overbrook and Greystone (Connecticut) 30: 96p
Creepy dolls in window display of Metuchen Savings Bank (Metuchen) 33: 83p
Creepy New York Boulevard (South Plainfield) 23: 61
Creepy structures at the Stone Museum (Jamesburg) 26: 50p
Crocodile-cowboy sculpture (Pompton Lakes) 27: 84p
Cumberland County Route 54 sculptures 5: 4p, 30p
“Cyclown”, the Display World clown sculpture (Jamesburg) 5: cp; RG: 69p
Days Inn “There you go” sign (Edison) 21: 65
“Dead Zone” — marker at site of Revolutionary War executions (Brielle) 30: 62p
Death spot of President Garfield (Elberon) 12: 62p; LE: 121p
Decorative coconut trees (Cedar Grove/Clifton/Paterson) 19: 51
Decorative toilet on lawn (Somerville) 20: 68
Del Buono’s Bakery — Animal and character sculptures (Mount Ephraim) 22: 70p
Demented clowns at the Circus Drive-in restaurant (South Belmar) 21: 63p
Demon Tree (Mahwah) 26: 48p
Dental Arts building big-butt sculptures (Middletown) RG: 11p
Devil Face (Boonton) 19: 1p, 42p-43p; 20: 6; 24: 18p
Devil Faced Building (Fairview) 16: 47p; 27: 1p
Devil skeleton (Totowa) 11: cp, 7p; 12: 10; 13: 50p
Devil’s Eye (West Berlin) 20: 46
Devil’s Tree (Bernards)
10: 14p; 11: 22-23; 13: 74; 14: 48; 15: 46; 16: 65; 20: 74; 22: 8; 23: 10; 24: 15; 26: 14-15, 22-24; 27: 15, 43; 33: 29p
Dining car (Middlesex) 21: 92p
Dining car being re-used (Belvidere) 21: 92p; 22: 76p
Dinorock simulacra (Buttzville) 28: 50p
Dinosaur Rock on Mount Airy-Harbourton Road (Lambertville) 31: 79p; 32: 18
Dinosaur Rock (Lebanon) 14: 44p; RG: 47p
Dinosaur statue (Dennisville) 26: 50p
Dino skull sign near Parvin State Park (Pine Barrens) 30: 63p
Dipshit sign (Laurel Springs) 30: 64p
Disembodied figure sculptures at Pier Village (Long Branch) 31: 78p
Disguised cellular phone towers 11: 54p; 20: 66p
Display of life-size figures at antiques store along Route 57 (Greenwich) 27: 48
Disturbing statues of children at Robert Wood Johnson Children’s Hospital
(New Brunswick) 22: 66p
Dollar and cent tar pattern in Garden State Parkway 19: 51
“Donate your kid — Free Towing” sign (Garfield) 28: 57p
“Don’t Hump This Truck” on Route 287 (Basking Ridge) 25: 45p
Doo Wop Motels (Wildwood)
Lollipop, Starluxe, Caribbean and others make preservation list 27: 8p
Dueling angus burger billboards (Long Valley) 31: 74p
Duyne Cider Mill aka Troll Capitol of the World 1-3: 7
“Easter Bunny” house (Spotswood) RG: 77p
Ed “Elvis” Geil & Dolores, “Cult of the Wavers” (Wayne) 9: 3p; 18: 10; 29: 57p;
33: 12p
Edison Generator overturned car (Edison) 18: 45p; RG: 50
Edison’s Concrete Highway (New Village) RG: 78p
Edison’s Light Tower (Menlo Park) RG: 4d; 28: 29-30
Egg-O-Mat – egg vending machine (Warren) 11: 52p; 15: 46; 16: 65; 24: 19
“Elf Rage” building (Belmar) 27: 43p
Emilio Carranza memorial – Mexican aviator (Tabernacle) 31: 75p
English Telephone Booth (Allendale) 14: 44p; RG: 43p
Enthusiastic baptism (Belleville) 23: 70p
Esposito’s 10 pound boners 31: 75p
Etched Accident (Roselle Park) 28: 67p
“Eternal Flame” sculpture – “Largest Hand in N.J.” (Roxbury) 9: 9
Evil gnomes at East Orange High School 19: 50p; 24: 66p
Evil child mannequins at Daffy’s Clothing (Wayne) 23: 67p
Evil clown sculpture at “Greek’s Playland” aka “Cyclown” / Display World (Jamesburg)
5: cp; RG: 69p; 22: 10; 31: 22
Evil Tree (West Milford) 11: 3p; 31: 23p
Exceed the speed limit… earn points! (Rockaway) 26: 80p
Exit 98 EZ Pass spitballer (Garden State Parkway) 29: 56p
Fabulous Funky Flea (Morris Plains) 22: 68p
Fairy Tale Forest (Oak Ridge) 14: 71p-72p, 74p; 28: 21p; 31: 78
Fake rats hanging from power lines (Medford) 31: 91p
Fart and Poop Bridge near Lyon’s Mall (Basking Ridge) 29: 99p
“Fart” shoulder along Route 22 28: 48p
Female Sphinx statue (Ringwood Manor) 18: 1p
Fireside Steakhouse and Village (Winslow) 28: 95p; 29: 20
Fish statue at Legal Seafoods (Short Hills) 23: 69p
Flagship, building (Union) 1-3: 23; 14: 20, 22p; 20: 18p
Flem Pizza sign (Flemington) 10: 6p-7
Flowerpot Man in abandoned yard on Delsa Drive (Clayton) 29: 65p
Food Circus Clown aka “Most Evil Clown in N.J.” (Middletown)
6: 24; 7: cp; 18: 84p; 19: 6d; RG: 4d, 62p, 67; 21: 12; 22: 8
Foul Rift Road (Belvidere) 21: 62p
Fred Kanter (Mountain Lakes)
Boat in a tree, bowling ball pyramid and futuristic car from “Sleeper”
26: 76p-78p
Imitation police car and hearse on display 28: 6
Free coffee with live bait sign (Andover) 30: 65p
“Free spins” casino sign near wind farm (Atlantic City) 31: 75p
Fuddrucker’s – “Fresh meat butchered daily” sign (Edison) 28: 94p
“Funny Face” Street (Hawthorne) 14: 43p
FU’s Chinese Restaurant (Sparta) 31: 74p
Garage of Saturn (May’s Landing) 26: 51p
George’s Bait & Tackle & Music (Bricktown) 8: 20p; 28: 58
“Ghost sign” on Main Street (Rahway) 29: 68p
Giant beer bottle at Pabst Blue Ribbon Brewery (Newark)
16: 48; RG: 4d; 23: 16, 26p-31p; 25: 14; 26: 4p, 52p-53p, 64p; 27: 82p; 33: 8
Giant bottle-shaped water tower 10: bp
Giant bowling pin and ball (Union) RG: 71p
Giant cat statues (Vienna) 13: 51p
Giant chicken outside Fishers grocery store (Hopewell) 15: 36p; RG: 68p
Giant cow sculpture (Cowtown) RG: 69p
Giant cow of Bennett’s Lane (Franklin Park) 20: 66p; 21: 12
Giant Cowboy of Cowtown (Woodstown) RG: 68p
Giant ear of corn sculpture at Pastore Farms (Hammonton) 27: 55p
Giant fish lawn ornament (Cape May) 29: 57p
Giant inflatable rat (Atlantic City) RG: 70p
Giant martini glass in front of Bubba’s Discount Liquors (Vineland) 18: 47p; RG: 69p
Giant Miss Uniroyal statue (Blackwood) 25: 57p
Giant paint can (Middletown) 6: 24
Giant penis fountain (Pearl River, NY) 20: 92p
Giant raisin statue (Egg Harbor) 21: 64p
Giant Santa Claus (Wayne) RG: 70p
Giant straw bear (Sussex County) RG: 69p
Giant straw bee (Sussex County) RG: 69p
Giant Toothbrush (Blairstown) RG: 68p
Giant tooth sculpture (Mercerville) 15: 44p; RG: 70p
Giant vacuum cleaner (Keyport) 24: 69p
Giant vagina sculpture of Rockland County (NY) 20: 92p
Gingerbread Castle (Hamburg)
14: 70p, 73p-74p; 15: 8-10; RG: 46p; 25: 19; 27: 10, 93p; 28: 12, 29; 29: 44p-48p; 31: 23p
Glass-eyed “Virgin” Statue – Mother Cabrini (Belleville) 15: 1p; 16: 11; 18: 64p
Goa Way (“Bennies”) – amusingly named street (Ocean Beach) 26: 80p; 28: 17
“God Lies” grafitti (Burlington) 20: 68
Good Shepherd sculpture (Bernardsville) 7: 20
Grafitti Rock (Livingston/West Orange) 11: 53p; 12: 7
Grammatically-challenged sign — “sprinklered” (Greenwich Village, NY) 30: 96p
see Gravity Hill
see Gravity Road
“Grateful Dead” sign at Philadelphia Church (Jefferson) 31: 78p
Gross Street (South Amboy) 27: 18p
Grove Street railroad station placed on top of another building (East Orange) 24: 85p
Hanging doll at jobsite (Edison) 30: 61p
Happy Birthday skeleton on side of Wall Auto Wreckers on Route 71 (Belmar) 33: 84p
“The Happy Nig” aka The Old Lockup (Pemberton) 19: 87p
Haunted House with the Coffin Door (Wenonah) 20: 72p
Head in a tree (Deptford) 19: 51
Headless orange robot of Route 322 (Williamstown) 23: 66p
Head of Franklin Delano Roosevelt statue (Roosevelt) 21: 64p
Hell gas station sign on Route 3 (Clifton) 9: 46p; 32: 46p
Herman Munster graffiti across from Sea Girt Lanes (Sea Girt) 33: 84p
Hermit House (Avon-by-the-Sea) 16: 44p
“Hideous Pinky” truck (Howell) RG: 43p
Highway Harry (Tinton Falls) RG: 16
Hippo Rock in the Musconetcong River (Hackettstown) RG: 47p
Historic Nixon grafitti (Summit) 19: 49p
Hitler quote on roadside sign (Wantage) 32: 8
Hookers sign (Lyndhurst) 31: 75p
House with a face on it (Madison) 19: 51
House with divorce-related protest signs (Mine Hill) 23: 70p
Houses with Astroturf lawns (East Rutherford) 31: 79p
Howard Stern Reststop (Springfield) 7: 22
Hydrant house (Hawthorne) RG: 79p
“I bomb NJ” sign 31: 74p
Ideal Auto Sales (Hightstown) 16: 47p
Ideal Kitchens humorous sign 32: 46p
“IF” House (Wayne) 14: 43p
“I Love You” tar pattern (Garden State Parkway) 12: 42
“The Image” on steel door (Wall) 30: 60p
Incredibly ugly fence (Far Hills) 24: 69p
Intersection of Brotherhood St. and International Ave. (Piscataway) 20: 93p
Intersection of Freedom Ave. and Justice St. (Piscataway) 20: 93p
“I partied with the Jersey Devil” sign at Pine Barren Liquors and Deli (town??) 28: 56p
Ivy Guy (Alexandria) 33: 83p
Ivy Guy (Elk Township) 28: 49p
“Jacob’s Ladder” road (Somerset Hills) 12: 26, 28p; 14: 7-8
see Jenny Jump Falls/Rock
Jamaican Tree Mon (Ewing) 31: 77p
Jersey accent sign on Doty Road (Wanaque) 23: 71p
Jesus and Holy Family curbside display (Hamilton) 31: 78p
Jesus in a UFO billboard 27: 8
Joe Cerce, “Cult of the Wavers” aka Wavin’ Joe (Totowa)
8: 3p; 11: 2; 16: 87; 19: 73d; 30: 9
Joe Dirt sign (South Hackensack) 28: 57p
Johnson Plaza, development that never was (Hanover) 21: 12p
Kangaroo Crossing sign (Keansburg) RG: 50p
Kilroy’s Market – retro grocery store featured on the TV show “Ed” (Glen Rock) 27:20
King Neptune statue (Butler/Franklin/Lake Hopatcong) 11: 52p; 24: 69p
“Lackawannasaurus” footprints on road (Byram) 16: 44p; 20: 67p
Lake Forest Yacht Club – Penis Lessons (Lake Hopatcong) 31: 75p
Land of Make Believe (Hope) 14: 71-73p; 15: 10; 27: 93
“Last chance to fill your teeth” dentist (town?) 28: 56p
Leaning House (Wayne) 29: 66p
Lewd sign at First Baptist Church (Willingboro) 32: 46p
Life-size car repair diorama (Cape May County) 19: 48p
Life-size dinosaur sculptures
Alpha RG: 44p; 29: 90p-91p
Cherry Hill RG: 47p
Farmingdale RG: 45p-46p; 26: 13p
Gingerbread Castle (Hamburg) RG: 46p; 29: 44p-48p
“Light Dispelling Darkness” fountain in Roosevelt Park (Edison) 14: 39p; 25: 11
“Lights out” at The Manor (East Windsor) 30: 65p
Little Metal Man (Dingman’s Ferry) 23: 69p
Little Metal Man (Pennsauken) 23: 68p
Live and dead bait (Hackettstown) 30: 64p
Lois Lane street sign (Lakewood) 30: 64p
Lou Costello memorial (Paterson) 12: 63p; RG: 10p
Lucy the Elephant (Margate) 1-3: 23; RG: 7p; 22: 16; 24: 68d; 27: 92p
Lumberjack statue (Jersey City) 4: 23; 6: 21
“Lunar Landscape” house (Vineland) RG: 79p
“Mad Hungarian’s Junkyard” (Warren County) 21: 52p
Madonna of Route 17 (Rock Hill, NY) 23: 18
see Magnetic Hill
Maiden head placed on building each summer (Point Pleasant) 29: 54p
Mannequin at Elaine’s Bed & Breakfast (Cape May) 26: 48p
Marc Snyder’s prescription protest house (May’s Landing) 21: 16
Martin Urbanski’s Trading Post (Meyersville) 7: 24
Mary Murray, beached ferry along the Turnpike (Raritan River)
1-3: 22; 4: 16; 14: 20p-21; 26: 42p; 31: 23p; 33: 8, 10
Mason-Dixon line moves north (Jefferson) 26: 49p
Mathematics on road sign (Princeton) 29: 69p
Mausoleum open house (Franklin) 20: 69p
McDonald’s McTitty sign (Hillsborough) 32: 46p
Menacing robot sculpture (Ewing) 18: 44p
“Men not at work” protest sign (Dayton) 30: 65p
Menz’s Restaurant outdoor figures (Rio Grande) 7: 20; 8: 21p; RG: 38, 40; 30: 49p
Metalhead (Keansburg) 26: 49p
“Metal monstrosity” sculpture (Newark) 12: 17p; RG: 9p
MGS Champagne/Propane bottle (Bayville) 5: 15p; RG: 20p
“Mind Control” car (Burlington County Library) 16: 55p
Miniature Kingdom (Washington, Warren County) 1-3: 11; 13: 67p; 14: 12
Miniature medical figures on top of bus stop (New Brunswick) 19: 50p
Miss Uniroyal statue on Black Horse Pike (Gloucester) 18: 44p-45p; 23: 66p; 29: 85p
Mister Softee building (Runnemede) 25: 49p
Moan and Groan Road (Hope, NY) 20: 92p
Model Dairy – “A Totally Electric Building” (Dover) 16: 46p
Modified poop-scoop sign near the Waterway Ferry Terminal [“mandog’] (Belford)
31: 75p
“Monster Busters” truck (Verona) 29: 55p
Monument to Emilio Carranza (Burlington County) RG: 80p; 21: 54; 25: 10
Moon Mobile RG: 76p
Moon Motel RG: 21p
Moon over Osama pumpkin display (Red Bank) RG: 77p
Moose Tree (Reaville) 16: 46p
Mother keeping rooftop vigil since WWII (Hasbrouck Heights/Lodi) 11: 4
Motorized monkey mascot at auto dealer outside Holland Tunnel (Jersey City) 27: 49p
Moving blue bottles (Blawenburg/Hopewell/Pennington/Princeton) 23: 67p; 24: 10;
26: 4p; 27: 92p; 29: 18
Mr. Bill’s Twin (Jackson) 24: 70p
Mr. T head light fixture at Takanassee Beach Club (Long Branch) 30: 62p
Muffler Man statue (Jersey City) 4: 23; 6: 21; RG: 65p
Muffler Man statue at Barnacle Bills (Ortley Beach) RG: 64p
Muffler Man statues 6: 21; RG: 63-66p; 23: 66p
Muffler Man vampire statue (Jackson) RG: 66p
“Muffler men”
Along Route 27 (Edison) 26: 49p
Newark 26: 49p
Murphy’s Gas Station (Raritan) RG: 59
Mysteries of Blue Hill Road (River Vale) 21: 52
Mysterious alphabets on the Old Mill (Blairstown) 11: 52
Mystery garage on Mine Road (Bridgewater/Martinsville) 24: 68p
Mystery heads of Route 24 (Summit) 32: 75p; 33: 16-17
Mystery heads of Route 287 (Haskell) 32: 75p
Mystery store at flea market (Englishtown) 22: 68p
Negro Run sign (Allentown) 20: 93p
Neighbors: Institute of Better Digestion and MacDonald’s 21: 16p
New Egypt Flea Market Village (Plumsted) RG: 54p, 57p
“New Jersey’s Largest Cassette Tape” at The Record Store (Howell) 19: 48p
“No Exit Lane” (Mill Hall, PA) 28: 98p
“No Geese” sign (Princeton) 26: 26p
No Name Road (Newtonville?) 27: 25p
No Name Street (Washington) 27: 25p
“No Passing Ever Zone” (Edison) 23: 71
Northfield Avenue mineral spring marker (West Orange) 31: 77p
“Note First Name” building (East Orange) 20: 67p
Nun Crossing sign (Springfield) 19: 50p
Nurse mannequin without pants (Paterson) 26: 50p
“Off-Road Retards” truck (Belleville) 30: 61p
Old Mine Road – landowners illegally gate road 33: 6-7
Old Stone Inn and the Ghost Tree (New Brunswick) 18: 46p
“On this site nothing happened” plaque (Wall) RG: 50p
Oreo Cows of Bunn Road (Bedminster) 22: 77p
Orr’s Carpet Giant (Deerfield) 21: 62p
Our Lady of the Highways Shrine (Pomona) 18: 62p
Our Lady of Lacey Road – Virgin Mary display in pickup truck bed 31: 78p
Outdated gas station prices (Scotch Plains) 26: 80p
Outhouse Springs Bottled Water signs along Route 57 (Phillipsburg) 25: 45p
Out of Bounds Road (Edison) 23: 18p
Painted rock of Route 539 20: 67p; 27: 50p-51p
Paper mache head hanging below underpass along Route 15 (Sparta) 33: 84p
Papier Mache Man of Route 287 (Haskell) 31: 1p, 76p
PATH Christmas tree (Newark) 18: 16
Patriotic chicken sculpture (Berkeley Heights) 27: 48p
Penis-shaped bush (Belleville) 15: 37p
Penis-shaped bush (Wildwood Crest) 16: 43p
Penis-shaped tree (Rt. 35 South) 18: 47p
P. Guy sewage disposal (Stow Creek) 26: 51p
Phallic gateposts (Franklin Lakes) 25: 48p
Pink elephant on Riverstix Bridge (Hopatcong) 21: 63; 22: 55p; 27: 76p-77p; 28: 13-14
Pizzaland (North Arlington) – model of Sopranos pizzeria available 31: 6p
Polar bear statue at Cooper River Park (Pennsauken) 28: 51p
Pole Creature (Point Pleasant) 30: 61p
Pole Monster (New Jersey Turnpike) 25: 3p
Police slow down dummy 28: 77p
Pornographic statue at Princeton University (Princeton) 29: 55
Possessed vibrating pole (Passaic Park) 16: 43p; 18: 14
Post Lane tree sculpture (Bernardsville) 18: 47p
Postman statue (Ridgewood) 26: 51p
Pot sale (not that kind!) at Comisky’s Greenhouses (Hightstown) 31: 74p
Prankster alters signboard to “ass” theme at Wall Township Speedway (Wall) 28: 56p
Property with totem poles and warning sign (Morrisville, PA) 28: 98p
Prop jet from the movie “TankGirl” at Christi’s Pub (Egg Harbor) 21: 65p; 24: 87p
Protest sign (Delaware Memorial Bridge) 25: 4
Puzzling road sign — ejection seat or potholes? (Lodi) 30: 61p
Pyramid house RG: 78p
Rabbi only parking sign (Toms River) 32: 46p
Rabbit Tree (Vernon) 10: 42p; 22: 8
Racist “ghost sign” on Springfield Avenue (Irvington) 29: 68p
Radio frequency problems (Wayne) 26: 51
“Ready to make a Break” statue (Mount Holly) 20: 66p
Real-life gingerbread house (Vincentown) 29: 64p
Redevelopment around laundromat (Kendall Park) 23: 67p
Redneck Avenue (Teterboro) 28: 57p
Redrum Customs sign (Haskell) 26: 80p
Rehab Facility/Beer combination billboard (Gloucester) RG: 50p
Renault Winery bottle sculptures (Atlantic City/Berkeley/Hammonton/New Gretna)
7: 21p; 19: 48p; 21: 12; 28: 55p
Roadkill memorial (Pennsylvania) 30: 97p
Roadside coffin sale (Millville) 24: 66p
Roadside Elvis see Ed Geil
Roadside memorials to accident victims LE: 102p
Roadside Rhino statue (Menlo Park) RG: 47p
Roadside Robots of Route 54 (Newtonville) 22: 67p
Roadside rock shrine (Glen Rock) 30: 60p
Roadside Shrine (Sussex County) RG: 77p
Roadside tractor and grave memorial (Montville) 19: 49p; 22: 73p
Roadside weirdness – 2nd story mailbox, driveway cannon, rocks with patterned drillholes, fake goat mascot (Long Valley) RG: 77p
Roadside wood carvings of Greg Napolitan [Jersey Devil, etc.] (Frenchtown) 30: 62p
Road sign denouncing the Onondaga Indian Nation (Syracuse, New York)
17: 79p; 19: 10
Road to Nowhere (Mercerville) 18: 48
Road to Nowhere (Wanaque) 20: 75; 24: 19; 25: 19
Roadside grave (Tewksbury) 25: 28p
Robot statue (Jersey City) 28: 48p
Rock and Roll Bridge – grafitti tribute to dead musicians (Sewaren)
19: 51; 22: 69p; 24: 14
Rooftop knights battle at transmission shop (Bloomingdale) RG: 42p; 24: 69p
Rose’s Dress Shop (Atlantic City) RG: 59
Route 9 Dinosaur statue (Bayville) 1-3: 23; 5: 15p; 7: 20p-21; RG: 20p; 29: 91p
Route 9 Grim Reaper and Death signs (Howell) 21: 52p; 23: 15p; 24: 19; LE: 25p
Route 9 Steam engine and cars see Pine Creek Railroad
Route 23 bottle art linked to Lincoln Tunnel “terror” incident (Sussex County) 32: 8
Route 23 telephone pole art (Kinnelon/West Milford) 7: 36; 12: 10; 14: 40p-41p; 15: 46
Route 24 off-ramp decorations (Summit) 19: 51; 20: 69p
Route 27 Locks (Highland Park/New Brunswick) 23: 11-12
Route 27 nude cop in car crash (Edison) 24: 4
Route 35 Pirate ship building (Cliffwood Beach/Laurence Harbor) 4: 19; 15: 12; 33: 83p
Route 78 “Bunny Bridge” (Summit) 19: 74p
Route 78 Towers of Art (Hunterdon County) 21: 65
Route 287 pole art (Pompton Lakes/Haskell/Wanaque) 26: 49p
Route 666 (Atlantic County) 24: 72p; 28: 57p; 31: 10
Rundown shack next to realty sign (Long Beach Island) 31: 75p
The Sacred Heart – life-sized statue of Christ (Howell) 18: 56p
“Satan Claus” visits local fire department (Pequannock) 30: 65p
Satanic grafitti and body outlines that won’t go away (Tinton Falls) 12: 48
“Save the Alien” roadside display (Old Fort, NC) 30: 99p
Schooley’s Mountain hangman’s tree carved into eagle (Morris County) 22: 73p
“Screaming Sign” 9: 15
Semi-A-frame house (Wildwood) RG: 79p
Senior special 0% off sign (Wayne) 30: 64p
“Seven Bridges Road” (Tuckerton) 21: 19
Seven-Up “ghost sign” on Springfield Avenue (Irvington) 29: 68p
Shah of Iran’s yacht beached along the Turnpike (Raritan River) 14: 20p-21
Shark with leg in his mouth sign (Wildwood) 30: 46p
Ship graveyard (Staten Island) 16: 58p-59p
“Shirtwood Forest” on Finchley Drive (Brick) 14: 42p; 23: 6; 26: 19; 29: 56p
Shoeless Shoe Tree (Belvidere) 16: 48p
Shoes nailed to sign (Princeton) 18: 2p
Shoe Tree and Pocketbook Tree (Belvidere) 16: 48p
“The Short Hills Locks” 9: 44p; 11: 55; 12: 10
Shortened VW Beetles (Montville) RG: 76p
“Shortest highway in the U.S.” – Route 59 (Cranford/Garwood) 4: 4; 11: 53; 12: 8
Sign clutter at Avenel Flea Market (Avenel) 29: 68p
Sign denouncing evil county government (Burlington County) 22: 74p
Sign engulfed by tree 20: 3p
Sign-engulfed by tree on Kennedy Boulevard (Jersey City) 29: 69p
Sign engulfed by tree (Long Branch) 28: 57p
Sign promoting Ewing-Trenton ceasefire (Ewing) 30: 65p
“Signs from God”, church roadside messages 19: 84p
“Skinniest House in N.J.” (Bordentown) 12: 42p
“Skinniest House in N.J.” (Haledon) 14: 44p
“Skinniest House in N.J.” (Ocean City) 14: 44p
Skull Rock of Winfield Park (Union County) 12: 43
“Smallest House in NJ” (Bayville) 14: 44p
“Smallest House in NJ” (Bloomfield) 5: 21p; 9: 45p
“Smallest House in N.J.” (Passaic) 20: 68p
“Smallest Railroad in NJ” (Oakland) 5: 22
Smiling Tree (Westfield) RG: 43p
Snapping turtles of Route 508 (Kearney) 24: 50p
Soap Forest (West Orange) 13: 51p; 14: 54
Space capsule replica (Martins Creek, PA) 18: 82p
“Speed ahead” sign (New Jersey Turnpike) 31: 75p
Squirrel crossing sign (Springfield) 27: 98p
Stairs to Nowhere (Hoboken) 20: 66p
Standard Nipple Works company (Garwood) 28: 56p
Standing Bull statue (Middletown) 32: 35p
Statue of Liberty at Gogel Tire (Chatham) 21: 15p
Statue of Liberty at Lake Hopatcong harbor (Morris County) 21: 15p
Statue of Liberty in Pennsylvania (Duncannon, PA) 17: 79p
Statue of Liberty replica on lawn (Montclair) 22: 73p; 23: 66p; 24: 19
Steam locomotive (Beechwood) RG: 22p
Stone Face in Triangle Park (Dover) 16: 45p
Stop [in the name of love] sign (Nutley) 31: 74p
“Stop. It’s not a race” sign in Best Buy parking lot (Manalapan) 29: 68p
Strange Statue of Crane Park (Montclair) 16: 34p; RG: 9p
“Stub Yer Toe” Bridge along Runyon Road (Old Bridge/Sayreville) 20: 75p
Stuffed animals guarding abandoned factory (Roselle Park) 19: 51; 20: 68
Sunken House at Ramapo College (Mahwah) 16: 46p; 18: 10
Swamp Buck and Butt (Buttzville) 6: 20p; RG: 43p
Swastika building (Bayonne) 11: 55p; 12: 8-10; 19: 12
“Swingers and widows welcome” insurance man (Jersey City) 23: 70p
Taj Mahal model made out of cookies (Boonton) 15: 4p
“Take Off Your Top” sign (Pennsauken) 25: 45p
“Tallest [fake] tree in N.J.” – disguised cellular tower (Clark/Westfield) 11: 54p
Tank defending cornfield (Glen Gardner) 20: 69p
Telephone pole art (Tom’s River) 16: 48p
Telephone pole display on Lucent property (Chester) RG: 76p; 26: 8p
Telephone pole in middle of road (Ridgefield Park) 31: 78p
Three-quarter house (Trenton) 29: 66p
Thrift Shop sign at cemetery (Spotswood) RG: 58p
Thunder Road — A Springsteen connection? (Vineland) 28: 57p
“Tillie” at Palace Amusements 4: cp; 12: 36p-40p; 18: 6; RG: 1, 6p; 23: 1p, 14, 17p;
25: 56p; 28: 9; 31: 6p; 32: 7p; 33: 10p
“Tillie” sightings (Keyport & Morgan) 30: 62p
Tin Man on mobile home (South Brunswick) 19: 50p
Tin Man on sign (Livingston) 21: 64p
Titman Road (Butzville) 30: 65p
Toilet Man (Washington, Warren County) 23: 68p
Tombstone Creek, retaining walls made of cemetery stones (Irvington) 21: 1p, 34p
Tom Peterson and his metal sculptures (Egg Harbor City) 24: 68p; 32: 72p
Totem Pole (Wantage) 8: 1p-2; 10: 42; RG: 11p; 21: 3p; 22: 4; 23: 19d; 25: 11; 26: 10p
Totem Pole (Whippany) 15: 44p
Town Hall machine gun display (Fort Lee) RG: 76p
Tree engulfing iron cat statue (Pitman) 30: 63p
Tree growing in middle of street (Red Bank) 20: 67p
Tree growing out of garage (Hillside) RG: 77p
Trestle and Pillar (Lakewood) 21: 26p
T-Rex car parts skeleton (Neptune) 13: 50p
T-Rex statue at abandoned business (Cape May) 28: 55p
Trinity United Methodist Church, humorous roadside sign (Spotswood) 19: 84p
Truck permanently stuck in roadside embankment (Easton, PA) 30: 96p
Tugboat House – ship-shaped house (Cape May) 14: 22-23p
Turnpike Ivy Monster 28: 49p
Twisted sculpture (Trenton) RG: 9p
Two Balls and a Cox election (Ewing) 28: 56p
Two-story outhouse (Route 68) 25: 49p
UFO-shaped house – “Futuro” (Greenwich) 26: 82p
UFO-shaped house (Willingboro) 22: 15
UFO-shaped ride from Wildwood Amusement Pier (Wildwood) 21: 63p; 22: 15p
see also UFO-shaped House (“Futuro)
Ugly Florist statue (Gloucester) 19: 49p
Unexpected Road (Buena Vista) 21: 52; 26: 87p
“Union Locks” 11: 55
Unique “Road Floods” warning sign (Ramsey) 19: 48p
Unusual ice cream shop sign (Ocean Grove) 25: 51p
Unusual intersection of Routes 15 and 94 (Lafayette) 21: 52
Unusually bent sign along Route 1 (Edison) 31: 74p
Unusual recurring reflections on house (Clifton) 29: 54p
Unusual signposts and street names
Area 51 Farm, Boozer Street, Sludge Run, Loveman Road, Lost Road, Gayboy Court, Bonetown Road, Good Luck Road, Cemetery Road , Atlantic County Route 666, Purgatory Road, Wit’s End, Intersection of Straight and Narrow Streets RG: 48p-51p
Uprooted tree looks like dinosaur claw (Perth Amboy) 21: 62p
Upside down billboard (Cliffwood Beach) 32: 46p
U.S. Navy AEGIS Combat Facility (Moorestown) 14: 21 aka “The Cornfield Cruiser”
“Van-Go!”, trailer painted as Van Gogh’s Starry Night (Frenchtown) RG: 84p
Vend-a-Bait fishing bait vending machine (Middleville) 6: 12; 18: 44p
Vine Monster of Route 23 (Cedar Grove) 32: 72p
“Voyeurism is a Crime!” grafitti on Route 206 21: 16p
“Wack” street sign (Nutley) 27: 4p
War of the Worlds Monument (Grover’s Mill) 12: 14p-15
Washington’s face in a rock (Wall) 27: 54p
The Watching Statues of Route 31 (Glen Gardner) 33: 84p
Waving alien of Route 287 22: 79p
Waving Bear Statue (Westwood) 15: 45p
Waving Bear Statue (Wyckoff ) 15: 45p
“Weed and Seed Community” sign (Pleasantville) 30: 61p
Wee Nee Wagon (Route 22) 25: 51p
Weird brickwork (Rutherford) 19: 50p
Weird deer crossing sign (Scotch Plains) 23: 71
Weird dinosaur statue (Mount Holly) 20: 67p
Weird garden (Jersey City) 26: 51p
Weird roadside device (Princeton) 24: 66p
Weird stencils (New Brunswick) RG: 10p
Weird woman, frogs and crazed dogs (Tansboro) 23: 60d-61; 26: 19
“Welcome to Martians” sign at Quality Inn (town?) 28: 56p
Well Built Contractors sign (Little Falls) 30: 65p
“What happens in Linden, Stays in Linden” sign (Linden) 27: 49p
White Rhino statue (Jackson) RG: 47p
White Tiger mailbox (Barnegat) RG: 42p
“Whoa” speed bump sign (New Hope, PA) 27: 89p
“Why you pay more” Thrifty Store (Paterson) 32: 46p
Wickerman (Leeds) 22: 70p
Windmill (Cowtown) RG: 78p
Windmill (Holland) RG: 78p
Windmill (Monroe) RG: 78p
Windmill house (Barnegat) RG: 78p; 29: 66p
Wit’s End street sign (Hardyston) 29: 68p
World’s largest cat sculpture (Jersey City) 6: cp, 3
World’s Tallest Water Sphere (Union) 32: 73p-74p, 92
World War I tank (Manville) 4: 6
World War II gliders abandoned in woods (Independence) 16: 42p; 18: 14
Wreck of the H.M.S. Martin at Cape May Point (Cape May County) RG: 81p
Yellow Brick Road Shop (Mullica Hill) 28: 51p
“You have been warned!” sign (Hasbrouck Heights) 24: 3p, 88p
“You” roadside memorial signs: Garden State Parkway 26: 51; LE: 98, Route 78 26: 51; LE: 98: Route 287 26: 51; LE: 98
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