Lighthouses

It is an old prison, lighthouse, and castle once used to guard the port in Havana, Cuba

An operating 19th-century lighthouse just on the southern tip of Sweden.

The Créac’h Lighthouse is the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, which gives you, at night, an eerie sense of serenity.

This lighthouse has been in operation since 1881, with an interesting connection to the RMS Titanic.

The first federal construction project authorized under the Constitution

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

A remote island marking the entrance to Death’s Door, surrounded by the bones of ships who failed to heed her warnings.

A pair of trousers or a dress was hoisted up the shore station’s flagstaff to announce the birth of a baby to the lighthouse keeper working offshore.

This stately brick building once provided supplies and equipment to lighthouses across the northeast during the 19th and 20th centuries.

This distinctive lighthouse with an iron skeleton is one of the tallest on the East Coast.

This beacon honors a Nobel Prize-winner whose technology powered its light.

This lighthouse at the very tip of the Horn of Africa in the Puntland region of Somalia is a relic of Italian fascism.

This island only appears in winter once the surrounding waters have frozen over.

Cape Cod’s historic beacon made famous on a potato chip bag.

A pair of beacons from the 1920s guide ships steering a course to Melbourne.

Climb 200 stairs up the tallest lighthouse on the West Coast for an unbeatable view.

In a lighthouse by a vanished sea stands a museum for a man who never existed.

This picturesque beacon was built to keep boats safe shortly after the Civil War.