It's the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse, located in Buxton, North Carolina. For starters, it's America's tallest brick lighthouse at 198.5 feet - topped only by one in Poland.
It's also well known, particularly around hurricane season. Storms that come up the East Coast tend to bump into North Carolina because it sticks out a bit into the ocean. Therefore, visitors probably expect to see a hurricane coming in the distance during their trip. But as you can see, the weather was fine for our visit.
Happily, you can climb this historic structure. There are circular stairs inside, but there are landings after 31 steps. So it's easy to walk, rest a while, and climb again. Before you know it, you are on top - looking out of the area. This is a particularly dangerous part of the world for ships, so the lighthouse serves a valuable function.
If you visit, considered that the lighthouse was physically moved 2,900 feet in 1999. That's more than half a mile. It seems the facility was located in a great place when it was built, but erosion changed all that. The lighthouse would have become part of the ocean, and then destroyed, if it had stayed put. So, it was carried away from the shore. Remember, NASA used to move Saturn V rockets around, so this must have been easy - well, relatively easy.
What does it look like during a winter storm? Whew.
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