'Old Barney,' the 1859 lighthouse at the north tip of LBI, receives half a million visitors each year. The adjoining state park, filled with berry and holly bushes, bustles with bird life. If you can clamber up 217 steps, it's worth the view.
Barnegat Lighthouse State Park
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St Vladimir Russian Orthodox Church
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Visit one of New Jersey's first cranberry bogs, and the place where the highbush blueberry was cultivated. Nature trails wind through the property.
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8. St Vladimir Russian Orthodox Church
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