“Send him up!” a fisherman says into his radio as I sit precariously on the bow of his boat, bobbing in the cold swells of the Atlantic, more than 30 miles from shore. A wooden plank beneath ...

The owner of the Frying Pan Tower, Richard Neal, calls for more people to come to visit his mini lighthouse to help out with repairs. Volunteers spend days and nights surrounded by the Atlantic ...

The Frying Pan Tower is a lighthouse established in 1964 by the U.S. Coast Guard. It was originally built to warn ships of the shallow waters, called the Frying Pan Shoals, nearby. The lighthouse ...

Frying Pan Tower was built in 1964 to help ships avoid the dangerous Frying Pan Shoals. It was decommissioned in 2004 when GPS on ships made it obsolete, but volunteers and tourists can pay to ...

before it was reconstructed as an automated lighthouse on steel stilts in the Sixties and Seventies. The Frying Pan Tower is the latest in a series of unusual places to be converted into a hotel.

A lighthouse located 34 miles off the North Carolina coast that has been used as a bed and breakfast for several years will soon be sold to the highest bidder. The Frying Pan Tower, a surplus ...