A $300,000 investment in 2017 in a 145-year-old Erie asset appears to be paying off. Attendance is up markedly at Presque Isle Lighthouse, said Michael Sullivan, executive director of the lighthouse ...

Atlantic City’s Absecon Lighthouse started that tradition in 2010, inviting people to come out and climb to the top to see the full moon rising. By the next year, Cape May Lighthouse was doing the ...

ATLANTIC CITY - Absecon Lighthouse didn't celebrate its 157th birthday by itself Saturday. Whether they knew about the birthday in advance or not, a steady flow of customers visited the lighthouse, ...

This June marks the 26th annual Lighthouse Festival. On June 7-9, Door County will open up selected coastal sentinels for those interested in exploring a significant part of the county’s history.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally appeared in True North Magazine's Fall/Winter 2011 issue. NORTHEAST MICHIGAN – Like lighthouses? Then have we got a festival for you. The Great Lakes Lighthouse ...

Atlas Obscura on Slate is a blog about the world’s hidden wonders. Like us on Facebook and Tumblr, or follow us on Twitter. As lighthouses go, you can’t get much more evocative than the Tourlitis ...

In the days before easy communications, to a ship on the final and perhaps most treacherous part of its voyage, the flash of the lighthouse would have signalled the end of a long journey and safe ...