Best Lighthouse Travel Destinations Around the World
Browse more guides: India travel | Asia destinations Best Lighthouse Travel Destinations Around the World I spent a night in a converted lighthouse keeper's cottage on Maine's Pemaquid Point in 2018, falling asleep to fog horn rhythm and waking before dawn to watch sunrise over a rocky point that's been guiding ships since 1827. The lighthouse keeper tradition has largely ended - automation replaced human keepers globally during the 20th century - but accommodations in former keeper cottages preserve the experience of living at lighthouses. By dawn the next morning I'd accepted that lighthouse travel works specifically because lighthouses occupy dramatic positions: sea cliffs, fog-prone points, coastal hazards. The locations chosen for lighthouses are almost universally beautiful in ways most travel destinations cannot match. The world's great lighthouse destinations include both functioning lighthouses operated as tourist attractions and decommissioned lightho...