When you’re aboard a ship barrelling towards unknown shores, the last thing you want is an inconspicuous lighthouse guiding you in. Our friends at Oobject have a collection of the most extreme examples of lighthouse design from around the world.
If you think winter gets you feeling chilly, consider the plight of this Ohio lighthouse – a combination of freezing elements has it lookin’ like some crazyass ice castle. Which I guess isn’t much of a plight at all?
Once upon a time, back when people in Russia used big moustaches and sent other people to Siberia, there were no GPS or tacky mobile phones. But they had atomic lighthouses to light the Arctic shores.