Through the Era of Scientific Discoveries and Aeronautics

To make the most of this action-packed day, it's recommended to start your morning bright and early. Begin your day with a satisfying breakfast at this seaside café. If you time it just right, you can relish your cup of morning coffee while admiring the sun rising over the sparkling ocean.

Twin Lights is a very beautiful and powerful two-headed lighthouse. It also left its mark on the history of the United States, as the place where the Pledge of Allegiance was first officially spoken in 1893. Also, in 1899, it was here that Guglielmo Marconi set up his first wireless telegraph.
You can enjoy a walk around the grounds and climb the lighthouse to get a closer look at the lens mechanism.
You can book a tour of the lighthouse by calling them. You should call at least three days in advance because the lighthouse is quite popular.
If you're travelling on the days when the lighthouse is closed, you can still enjoy the exterior and the grounds.

The Holmdel Horn Antenna will definitely appeal to those interested in science because it was with this antenna that physicists Penzias and Wilson obtained conclusive evidence for the Big Bang Theory and the expanding universe. As a result of this discovery, they were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1978.
The antenna is located on the premises of the Alcatel-Lucent Research Laboratory and is only open during weekday business hours. If you travel during the weekend, head to the next attraction right after the double-headed lighthouse.

The Hindenburg crash was a major event in American aeronautical history. During the early part of the 20th century, the sky belonged to dirigibles. However, in 1937, the era of dirigibles ended when a terrible catastrophe took place – lightning hit the Hindenburg and it collapsed in flames. In total, 35 people were killed, but most of the passengers and crew were saved.
Later, the photographs and film of the accident were so tragic that within a short period of time the use of airships was eliminated as a mode of aviation travel. Soon after, airplanes became the primary mode of air travel. The memorial is a simple outline of where the blazing dirigible fell to the ground.

Not far from the Hindenburg crash site is the Cathedral of the Air. Here you can enjoy some of the most unusual stained-glass windows. All of them are dedicated to the history of aeronautics.
People always looked at the sky with hope and envied the birds and, since ancient times, man has tried to get closer to the sun and clouds. The stained-glass windows of the cathedral tell the story of those aspirations. Here in stained glass are the stories of our ancestors' attempts to attach wings made from bird feathers to themselves, and the first balloons and airplanes of a new era when the cathedral was built in 1932. It's truly remarkable to find such beautiful stained-glass windows of the sky as you will at the Cathedral of the Air.

After your morning drive, stop for lunch at this wonderful restaurant. Here you'll find a huge selection of burgers, sandwiches, and pizzas, as well as a variety of seafood dishes.

Conveniently park your car adjacent to the Batsto Visitor Center and embark on an exploration of this historic destination.

Here the whole city has been turned into a museum. Batsto was founded in 1766 as an iron-making industrial center. During the Revolutionary War, Batsto supplied the Continental Army with iron. However, over time, the metallurgical industry in Batsto died out and attempts to revive the city with new industries were unsuccessful. The last resident left the city in 1989.
More than 40 historic buildings have now been completely restored, and it looks as if the city has returned to life and produces iron as it did many years ago.

And finally on the second day of your visit to New Jersey is Diggerland XL, a very unusual amusement park indeed! The park taps into the notion that every adult, deep down inside, is still a child. A child that remembers massive mustard yellow excavators and other earth-moving machines with great delight. Perhaps you wanted to control the levers of those roaring machines, and scoop up a huge bucket of earth and dump it on command.
Diggerland gives you a chance to experience it all – find yourself in the cab of a real excavator, manipulate an excavator bucket, drive a dump truck, and enjoy other many working attractions.
And during the summer months, you can also enjoy the exhilarating thrills of a water park!

You can charge your car here before you go back to the city.
Type: CCS 10 plugs Power: 150-350 kW

There are a number of restaurants around the charging station where you can have dinner while your car is charging. For example, consider this nice Chinese restaurant.

Now return to your car and continue the journey.