If you’ve ever walked the beach at Cape Hatteras National Seashore at night and seen the stars spread like glitter on a black velvet sky, imagine how much darker it must look to seafarers trying to ...

The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is “bleeding,” and the National Park Service has a sensible explanation linked to ongoing renovations. National Park Service photo The iconic North Carolina lighthouse ...

You can visit each of North Carolina's seven iconic and historic lighthouses - but did you know there's an abandoned lighthouse most people have never seen, hidden along the shore of a quiet waterway ...

Lighthouses have been the beacon of light for more than 100 years that symbolized safety and security for ships and boats at sea. On Aug. 9, 1789, Congress approved an Act for the establishment and ...

There is no better symbol of life on the coast than that of the lighthouse. Originally built to serve as beacons guiding ships safely to shore, these towers are now reminders of a bygone era — a time ...