Lighthouses

A rare octagonal brick beacon on an isolated island in the Baltic.

This abandoned beacon is moving closer and closer to the sea.

This large torch on the Hove coastline helped Sir Francis Drake defend England from the Spanish fleet.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This candy-striped tower is the farthest east you can go in the United States.

This picturesque lighthouse at the edge of the Irish Sea looks like a giant stone pencil.

You can spend the night as an honorary lighthouse keeper in this quaint, historic beacon.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

Located within a historic park, the beacon is the oldest standing structure in Miami.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

A lonely beacon, precariously perched atop a remote sliver of rock.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

The 32nd president's sprawling cottage sits on an island enclave jointly managed by the U.S. and Canada.