The Pharos of Alexandria, built around 280 BC, is believed to be one of the first lighthouses ever built. In the millennia since, lighthouses sprang up all over the world. They helped mariners ...

Lighthouses of the Northern Seas is a beautiful map of glimmering coastlines at night, a cloudless world where everything but the lighthouses are turned off. It shows 23,217 lights, separated into ...

A view from the water against a backdrop of the city's skyline of Boston Light, the country's first lighthouse, located on Little Brewster Island in the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area, ...

"I would love it if people were lighthouse geeks like me and they wanted to know about the history." Jeff Gales is a self-described "lighthouse geek" who is so passionate about lighthouses he works ...

Ten lighthouses that for generations have stood like sentinels along America's shorelines protecting mariners from peril and guiding them to safety are being given away at no cost or sold at auction ...