Howland Island
Earhart Light
The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
Howland Island
The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.
Yarmouth, Nova Scotia
The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.
Hammarland, Finland
A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.
Løkken, Denmark
An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.
Bahamas
Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.
New York, New York
Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.
Evanston, Illinois
A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.
Larne, Northern Ireland
This picturesque lighthouse at the edge of the Irish Sea looks like a giant stone pencil.
Richmond, California
A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.
Simpang Renggiang, Indonesia
A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.
Anstruther, Scotland
This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.
Cork, Ireland
An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.
Gatteville-le-Phare, France
A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.
Carp Lake, Michigan
During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.
Isle of Barra, Scotland
The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.
Crich, England
This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.
Eoropaidh, Scotland
A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.
Cochin, Saskatchewan
The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.
Walnut Creek, California
This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.
Wales
This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.
Highlands, New Jersey
These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.
Cleveland, Ohio
An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.
Fraserburgh, Scotland
An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.
Gopalpur, India
No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.