Used for thousands of years, lighthouses function primarily to guide navigators and warn them of various hazards. The first known lighthouse was constructed on the island of Pharos, near Alexandria, Egypt, during the reign of Ptolemy II (308-246 b.c.),...

A shipwreck on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea. (Dutch) It is darkest under the lighthouse....

An aid for navigation and pilot at sea, a lighthouse is a tower building or framework sending out light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire. Lighthouses are used to mark dangerous coastlines, hazardous shoals, safe entries...

WANDERING Ahoy there! Lovers of antique lighthouses! This Monday more than a dozen historic New England lighthouses are open to the public to celebrate the Bicentennial of the US Coast Guard Lighthouse Service. These range from the tall, white, majestic lighthouses such as...

The last Delaware Bay Lighthouse adventure, sponsored by the Cape May, New Jersey Center for the Arts, took place on 9 September. The trip aboard the Cape May Whaler took its passengers by nine lighthouses. They included the 157-ft Cape May lighthouse, built...

The Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay has opened for tours for the first time in its history.The 1875 Maryland landmark has been undergoing renovation and has long been a beacon to mark shallow shoal for fishermen and recreational boaters.Henry Gonzalez, vice president...

George Larsen jumped out of bed and pulled on his jeans, thinking an earthquake was shaking Hawaii's Diamond Head lighthouse, where he worked as a Coast Guard radioman.But it wasn't nature: War arrived that Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941, as Japanese bombers swept in to...