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...

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...

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...

The Longwood Plantation in Natchez has been selected Mississippi's top architectural site by voters participating in a survey organized by the state chapter of the American Institute of Architects.David Hardy, the chapter president, says the list of 12 favorite landmarks shows Mississippians lean toward history,...