With fresh snow on the ground, The Bodie Island Lighthouse is framed by a thicket of pine trees, and their shadows cast by ...

It just might be time for a beach getaway. We've narrowed our list of the best beaches to visit in North Carolina.

The first lighthouses were built to foster the growing ... the rocky coast of Massachusetts to the barrier islands of the North Carolina coast.

This light was built in 1760 -- from lottery proceeds from civic-minded Colonial citizens of New London -- it was the 4th (colonial) lighthouse built in the U.S. The original light survived the ...