Abandoned Places: Grand Harbour and Other Lighthouses

[Image by Seth Frantzman used under the linked Creative Commons license.]

Note: The Grand Harbour Lighthouse at Fish Fluke Point in Canada was actually destroyed by storm late in 2013.

The Whiteford Point lighthouse in Wales, built in 1866, is the only cast-iron lighthouse in the UK. Due to almost non-existent shipping in the area by the early 1900s, the lighthouse fell out of use in the 1920s. It was sold for the equivalent of a couple bucks in 2000.

Images by Thomas Guest and used under the above linked agreement.

The Klein Curacao lighthouse was originally built in 1850 and has had to be rebuilt at least twice since then. The small island the lighthouse is located on is currently uninhabited and the lighthouse has begun to fall into ruins despite the fact that it contains an active LED light. The windward side of the island serves a graveyard for ships that failed to benefit from the warning light.

Above photos credited to Mingo Hagen under the same agreement.

As an added bonus, here some photos of the "Ghost Mansion" by Lake Como in Italy.

Photo credit to Fabrizio under the same agreement.

Photo credited to In giro con mama [Flickr/ingiroconmama] under the same agreement.