A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways.

The United States Coast Guard built a three-story home at the lighthouse tower in 1871, but it was destroyed by fire on March 15, 1976.

) The tower on the right is the Brandaris lighthouse

The lighthouse of Calais ( Le phare de Calais ) was built in 1848, replacing the old watch tower as the lighthouse of the port.

The lighthouse, which overlooked the Mispillion River and Cedar Creek, was established in 1831 with a 65 foot tower.

Visitors who climb the lighthouse tower are treated to a view of the Florida coastline and Halifax River from Daytona Beach to New Smyrna Beach.

Some scholars have asserted that if the Spanish on any occasion placed torches in this tower, the structure would have been thus functioning as the first lighthouse in the New World.

Wing's Neck Light is a Cape-Cod style lighthouse built in 1849, with a white, wooden hexagonal tower and lantern room on top of a stone house where the keeper lived.

Just south of the lighthouse is a Coast Guard radar station, equipped with a Doppler radar tower, close to the nearby Jenny Lind Tower.

The original 1894 Grosse Ile lighthouse resembled a water tower on stilts as it was constructed on wooden pilings along with a walkway to shore.

Proposals for construction of a second lighthouse on Bald Head Island started in 1889 with the suggestion that a 150 ft tall, 18. 5 mi visibility, masonry tower be built at a cost of $ 150, 000.

On Christmas Day of 1862 a move was made by Confederate General John B. Magruder, who authored a detachment of troops to commence the ruination of the lighthouse tower.

A former part of the fort, Store Tårn on Christiansø has housed a lighthouse for the past 200 years, and a small round tower on Frederiksø, Lille Tårn, serves as a museum.

The islands have no permanent population, the only residents being National Trust bird wardens during part of the year: they live in the old pele tower on the Inner Farne, the largest and closest inshore of the islands, and the lighthouse cottage on the Brownsman in the outer group.

Built in 1811 to the design of Daniel Alexander, it is a circular white tower with lighthouse keepers ' cottages to the rear.

The Saltholmen Lighthouse, located on an island off Lillesand, is a nineteenth century lighthouse with a slate roof and a concrete tower for the light.

For more than 80 years, the red-and-white striped tower was manned by three lighthouse keepers.

Near the beach there is a lighthouse, named " Faro de Ciudad Madero "-although this has been replaced by a red beacon light atop a small tower, to guide approaching ships in to the channel of the Río Pánuco.

The path continues on to Hartland Point, with its lighthouse and radar tower, which marks the western limit ( on the English side ) of the Bristol Channel with the Atlantic Ocean to the west.

Monuments in the town include a lighthouse from 1871 ( rebuilt to include the octagonal tower in 1892 ), Main Post Office from 1875 and church from 1882.

The 14 metre metal tower lighthouse on Peninnis Head was built in 1911 as a replacement for the 1680 lighthouse in the centre of St Agnes.

In late September 2004, Islanders ' ownership announced an ambitious project to renovate the Coliseum, surrounding it with housing units and construction of an adjacent tower, resembling a lighthouse, at a total cost of over $ 200 million ( US ).

The lighthouse keepers ' dwellings and other historic light station buildings are now home to the lighthouse museum, with exhibits on lighthouse life, lighthouse and Fresnel lens restoration, the keepers and their families, Daytona Beach and Florida history, and shipwrecks.

Sturgeon Point Light Station, a lighthouse and museum is just a few miles to the north, and is open to the public.

Sturgeon Point Light Station, both an operational lighthouse and a museum, is within Haynes Township, and is open to the public.

The city also features a historic downtown area, boardwalk, marina, museum, lighthouse, and the McMorran Place arena and entertainment complex.

Local landmarks include the Port Sanilac lighthouse ( burning kerosene from its opening in 1886 until its electrification in 1924 ) and a twenty-room Victorian mansion ( now a museum ) built in 1872 by a horse-and-buggy doctor, Dr. Joseph Loop.

In the old lighthouse, there is now a museum and a branch of the registry office.

The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.

The town has several attractions including an award winning sand beach, a major harbour, the lighthouse museum, heritage centre and a variety of amenities and facilities.

It was built in 1906 and it is the first lighthouse museum in Finland.

The lighthouse now holds a museum and a small rustic restaurant.

Historical buildings in and around the town include the pentagonal Pillau Citadel, founded by the Swedes in 1626, completed by the Prussians in 1670, renovated in 1870 and currently holding a naval museum ; the ruins of the 13th-century Lochstadt Castle ; a maze of 19th-century naval fortifications ; the Naval Cathedral of St. George ( 1866 ); the 32-metre Expressionist observation tower ( 1932 ); the Gothic Revival building of the Baltic Fleet Museum ( 1903 ); and an elegant lighthouse, dating from 1813-1816.

In addition to offering tours of the tower, the lighthouse has a museum that is open during the summer season.

Pointe-au-Père lighthouse along with the Site historique maritime de la Pointe-au-Père museum are major regional tourist attractions.

The town's old lighthouse and museum are located on it, as well as The Erie Belle Restaurant and the Harbour Street Brasserie.

There are a growing number of tourism businesses on the island including a cheese factory, oyster farm, vineyard, smokehouse, lighthouse, museum, art gallery, two eco-cruises along with various accommodation properties and cafes.

The museum's collection includes four historic museum ships and one lighthouse:

Image: Jones Point lens. jpg | Fifth-order Fresnel lens once used at the lighthouse, on display at The Lyceum, Alexandria's history museum

There is a modern non-functioning reproduction lighthouse tower on Gavdos which now serves as a cafe during the summer season ; the complex also contains a museum on the history of the original lighthouse with several rooms of photos and antique equipment.

The northern reach of this river is the Baltimore Harbor, where the now-decommissioned lighthouse has been placed as a museum.