Lighthouses

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

Life in this isolated, hilltop lighthouse was lonely, but it sure was lovely.

New England's tallest light house stands on an island with a history of cannibalism and death.

This abandoned lighthouse looks like a rusting oil rig, but has managed to survive a number of storms.

This scenic Maryland park was the site of one of the worst prison camps of the Civil War.

This picturesque cliffside beacon no longer calls to sailors but shines once a year in honor of a famous shipwreck.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

The oldest Roman lighthouse still in use.

An obsolete form of timekeeping still marks the hour in this adapted 19th century lighthouse.

Immortalized by artists, this church incorporates a medieval lighthouse into its shoreside structure.

One of the few standing Roman lighthouses and a labyrinth of tunnels are a couple of the secrets at this historic castle.

An isolated beacon with a history of grisly murder and a view of some of literature's greatest inspirations.