Looming 136 feet above the shoals is Frying Pan Tower, built in 1964 by the U.S. Coast Guard as a light station after the nautical agency retired its lightship fleet, which had been anchored here ...

The most dangerous hotel in the world could be the Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower located southeast of North Carolina's Bald Head Island. Originally built by the U.S. Coast Guard to be a lighthouse ...

The Frying Pan Lightship blows a final whistle as it hands off its duty as the light of Frying Pan Shoals to Frying Pan Tower on Nov. 24, 1964. [PHOTO COURTESY OF DR. ROBERT M. FALES COLLECTION ...

And in the ocean off the Brunswick County community of Southport, guests can spend a weekend in a decommissioned light tower that once kept ships from running aground in Frying Pan Shoals.

Frying Pan Shoals Light Tower has hit the big time. As in Time Magazine. Seemingly once fated to a slow and rusty demise at the mercy of the elements, the former Coast Guard installation about 25 ...

Below, the ocean churns violently. The tower was built in 1964 to help ships avoid the Frying Pan Shoals, a shallow area that was known for shipwrecks. For years, about 20 Coast Guard cadets lived ...

The tower marks the start of Frying Pan Shoals, a skillet-shaped stretch of ... I find Neal putting together a red-and-white beacon light that will shine atop the tower for the first time since ...