Heralding the entrance from the Atlantic Ocean into the shipping channel between North Island and South Island stands the oldest...
lighthouses
If you’re visiting New Zealand, the East Cape Lighthouse should be included in your plans. It is a lighthouse perched...
The Gibraltar Point Lighthouse is located on the Toronto Islands in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Begun in 1808 and first lit...
Cape Bojeador Lighthouse, in the Philippines, also known as Burgos Lighthouse, is a cultural heritage structure in Burgos, Ilocos Norte,...
The Kill van Kull is a tidal strait between Staten Island, New York and Bayonne, New Jersey, that connects Upper...
At the Southern edge of Anclote Key, Florida, a spindly red-brown tower rises above the surrounding treeline, topping out at...
A nondescript gravel road leads to a quaint old stubby lighthouse on the furthest point east in Maine and, indeed,...
Blackhead Lighthouse, located only half an hour from Belfast and on the Causeway Coastal Route, was built in 1902. It...
When you see the Tillamook Rock Lighthouse, you probably think, "Oh, what a beautiful lighthouse!" But – there is more,...
Sometimes lighthouses are the only lifeline for seafarers lost in the dark of night or the chaos of a violent...
Galley Head Lighthouse rises an imposing 53m above the roaring Atlantic ocean outside of Rosscarbery, County Cork, on the south...
Spanish artist Okuda San Miguel turned a regular lighthouse in northern Spain’s Cantabria region into an eye-catching work of art....
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...
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 slender lighthouse (Kiipsaare Tuletorn in Estonian) off the coast of the Estonian island of Saaremaa, on the Harilaid peninsula,...
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...
The Créac'h lighthouse, in Breton Tour-tan ar C'hreac'h (translated as Tour-tan: lighthouse and C'hreac'h: promontory) is a lighthouse in the...
"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,...
