#66 best destination in the world

Emlen Physick Estate, Cape May

Best time to travel: May-Sept
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

Victorian house museum in Cape May, the 18-room mansion, was built in 1879 for Dr. Emlen Physick Jr. (1855-1916), descendant of a well-known Philadelphia family, his widowed mother, Mrs. Ralston, and maiden Aunt Emilie
The Physick Mansion is an example of “Stick style” architecture

Best time to travel: May-Sept
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

One of the country’s oldest vacation resort destinations, the entire city of Cape May is designated a National Historic Landmark due to its concentration of Victorian buildings
Cape May is known as one of the best beaches on the Middle Atlantic coast

Best time to travel: May-Oct
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, was founded in 1882, and it now houses over 92,000 works of art ranging from antiquity to the contemporary period
Its collections concentrate on the Mediterranean region, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America
The museum has a large collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from Princeton University’s excavations in Antioch

Best time to travel: April-July
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

The state’s largest museum, Newark Museum of Art holds major collections of American art, decorative arts, contemporary art, and arts of Asia, Africa, the Americas, and the ancient world
The Museum’s Tibetan art galleries are considered among the best in the world
The collection was purchased from Christian missionaries in the early twentieth century
The Tibetan galleries have an in-situ Buddhist altar that the Dalai Lama has consecrated
In addition to its extensive art collections, the Newark Museum of Art includes selections from the museum’s 70,000 specimen Natural Science Collection

Best time to travel: May, Sept
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

Sculpture park and museum located in Hamilton, founded in 1992
The venue is dedicated to promoting an understanding of and appreciation for contemporary sculpture by organizing exhibitions
GFS maintains an ever changing collection of sculptures, with works by Seward Johnson and other artists

Best time to travel: Jan-Feb, Dec
Ease of travel: Moderate
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $$

Ski resort in Vernon Township, Mountain Creek contains 167 acres of skiing area, night skiing, snowboarding, and snowmaking activities
The resort also includes a snow tubing park, zip-lines, an alpine coaster, and a seasonal water park that operates from May to September

Best time to travel: May-June, Sept-Oct
Walk difficulty: Easy
Ease of travel: Easy
Cost ($-$$-$$$): $

Park located in Jersey City, opposite both Liberty Island and Ellis Island
Before opening, the park was the site of abandoned rail facilities built on landfilled tidal flats
Influential environmentalists and historians spearheaded the movement that led to the the creation of the park
The park opened in 1976 to coincide with bicentennial celebrations