A nondescript gravel road leads to a quaint old stubby lighthouse on the furthest point east in Maine and, indeed,...
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A visit to Clare Island Lighthouse, Ireland, is absolutely something different.First, you can leave your car behind at Roonagh Pier...
Maybe not everyone knows her, but It would be wrong to describe Grace Darling as an unsung heroine: songs have...
Saginaw Bay lies between Michigan’s thumb and the rest of the state’s Lower Peninsula. As Michigan was preparing to become...
Standing between idyllic Lough Swilly, one of Ireland’s very few glacial fjords, and sandy Mulroy Bay, lies Fanad Head Lighthouse....
We are on Hook Head at the tip of the Hook Peninsula in County Wexford, in Ireland. Hook Lighthouse is...
Built in the late 1840s, Ballycotton Lighthouse sits atop the unspoilt eponymous Island, in Ireland. On January 16, 1847 the...
Guiding ships for countless centuries, as well as looking spectacular on the horizon, every lighthouse boast at least one of...
We are in the island of Barra Head, the southernmost in the Outer Hebrides, an island unprotected from the ravages...
We are on the Isle of May, an island about five miles from the north shore of the Firth of...
The Point Reyes Lighthouse was built in 1870 due the extremely high winds and dense fog that descend from the...
In Cleveland, Ohio, there is a lighhouse that is placed so close to Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes...
We are in Puerto Morelos, located about halfway between the Riviera Maya hubs of Cancún and Playa del Carmen. Believe...
Built in 1872 and known then as the "Blackwell Island Lighthouse", the 15-meters-tall stone lighthouse at the northern tip of...
"Further west than the west", Ouessant is the westernmost island in Finistère, a department of France in the extreme west...
We are in the village of Marsden in South Shields, Tyne&Wear, in Northern England. The story of Souter Lighthouse began...
This lighthouse proudly stands at the end of Le Môle Saint-Louis, Sète’s pier. The jetty, 650 metres long, was the...
We are off the coast of the Greek port city of Andros. Rising up out of the islet of Tourlitis,...
Svörtuloft (or the Black Ceiling) is a ruggedly beautiful place to visit. Despite the name sounds ominous, it stems from...
Located on Pointe Saint-Mathieu in Plougonvelin, around Brest in Finistère, Saint-Mathieu lighthouse was built in 1835 among the ruins of...
Fort Gratiot was built in 1814 during the War of 1812 to guard the juncture of the St. Clair River...
A cluster of slender rock pillars jut out from the ocean’s surface, miles away from civilization. From a distance, it...