The ruins of a lighthouse on the island Amelia Earhart never reached.

The first "applecore" style lighthouse in Nova Scotia.

A long-disputed lighthouse built on the wrong side of a Finnish/Swedish island.

An abandoned lighthouse awaits its destiny: being buried under shifting sand.

Bermuda triangle lighthouse, site of mysterious disappearances, left to crumble into the Atlantic.

Little Red Lighthouse under the George Washington Bridge.

A historic beacon built in the aftermath of the worst maritime disaster on the Great Lakes.

This picturesque lighthouse at the edge of the Irish Sea looks like a giant stone pencil.

A B&B on a Victorian lighthouse station in San Francisco Bay.

A hundred and twenty year old twelve story lighthouse located on a beautiful Indonesian island.

This short white tower is all that's left of Scotland's first permanently manned lighthouse.

An oddly conical beacon perched atop beautiful Irish cliffs.

A beautiful lighthouse with as many steps as days in the year, as many windows as weeks, and as many levels as months.

During WWII the U.S. Navy conducted primitive drone strikes on this Lake Michigan lighthouse.

The highest lighthouse in Scotland shines from an abandoned island.

This poignant WWI memorial looks like a lighthouse 100 miles from the sea.

A red-brick beacon stands against the tempestuous Atlantic, on the windiest site in the United Kingdom.

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

This mountaintop beacon is only lit three times a year but shines like some kind of all-seeing eye.

This lonely cast-iron structure is the only wave-washed lighthouse of its kind left in all of Britain.

These unassuming lighthouses have seen the first reading of the Pledge of Allegiance, the first wireless transmission, and more than one mystery.

An unoccupied lighthouse encased in layers of ice from the waters of Lake Erie.

An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.

No cyclone yet has been able to topple this rugged Indian lighthouse.