The Lake County Historical Society has removed the beacon of the iconic Two Harbors Light Station, located between Burlington and Agate bays. The beacon went dark Nov. 25 due to a failure that ...

Lighthouses have been the beacon of light for more than 100 years that symbolized safety and security for ships and boats at sea. On Aug. 9, 1789, Congress approved an Act for the establishment and ...

But if someone suggests you take a short(-ish) drive to an icy Michigan pier to visit lighthouses in wintertime, you might ...

MANTEO, N.C. (WNCN) — An iconic North Carolina lighthouse is getting a makeover. Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, known for its black and white spiraling paint and red brick base, is covered with scaffolding ...

A 7-mile peninsula juts out into Lake Erie from the city of Erie, forming a magnificent natural harbor called Presque Isle Bay. Today, two active lighthouses protect the ships plying Lake Erie. The ...

CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCBD) – Two iconic lighthouses serve as beacons of history along the Charleston, South Carolina coast. Congress passed an act which protects all lighthouses, beacons, and buoys on ...

DULUTH — It won’t just be fireworks lighting up the night sky in Two Harbors this Fourth of July. For the first time in six years, the iconic light from the North Shore city’s lighthouse beacon 25 ...

DULUTH — Split Rock Lighthouse, which annually honors the lost crewmembers of the doomed Edmund Fitzgerald, will this time shine its light for Gordon Lightfoot — who captured the tale of the tragic ...

Point Reyes peninsula, the windiest location on the Pacific Coast and the second-foggiest place on the North American continent, has been the scene of hundreds of shipwrecks dating from the Spanish ...