I woke up Sunday morning with no way to hold my head that it didn’t hurt, as Kris Kristopherson sings, but Lynn wanted to go see Lucy, the giant elephant of Margate. And so we did, and it was delightful. Her belly is far more capacious than one would suspect from a distance, and I toyed with the idea of renting her out for a party sometime. Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant-shaped architectural folly (in architectural terms, a folly is a building  constructed primarily for decoration) constructed of wood and tin sheeting in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, two miles (3.2 km) south of Atlantic City, in an effort to sell real estate and attract tourism. Lafferty took prospective clients to the top (six stories up) to point out plots of land they might like to own. Although it drummed up little in the way of business for Lafferty, Lucy became a beloved addition to the Jersey shore and has become a mainstay of such novelty books as Weird USA. Over the years she has served as a bar (until a drunken patron tipped over an oil lamp, nearly burning her down) and even a personal residence (imagine living in an elephant!). If you’re ever down the shore, maybe gambling in Atlantic City, take a few minutes to drive down and take a tour through Lucy. Her eyes provide excellent views of the beach.