Lighthouses

Portugal’s highest lighthouse has one of the most impressive focal planes in the world.

This isolated structure beckons adventurers with sublime views of the Faroe Islands.

What happened to the three lighthouse keepers who vanished from this place remains a mystery over a century later.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.

Once standing on solid ground, this slender beacon is a victim of the very shoreline it was charged with announcing.

Housed in a memorial lighthouse, this museum relays the history of surfing, beginning with the antics of royal Hawaiian teenagers.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

An abandoned lighthouse off the beaten path, one of the few surviving pre-World War II Japanese structures, offers a beautiful view.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

At high tide, the base of the lighthouse covers practically every inch of the island.

The only land territory disputed between the U.S. and Canada.

No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.

Perched on a spindly rock spire in a Greek archipelago, this lighthouse would make a perfect wizard's tower.