Leaning back in his hammock, Garry Bickett looks over at his brother, Bill. He reflects on the day and the beauty of the sun setting across the North Atlantic Ocean. “This is it, right here,” Garry ...

Originally built in 1964, the tower housed about 20 Coast Guard cadets until 1979 it became obsolete in light of the invention of GPS. The rundown structure was restored in 2010 and transformed into a ...

Located in clear blue water — 55 kilometres off the coast of Cape Fear, North Carolina — the Frying Pan Tower is a former US Coast Guard light station that was abandoned in the late 1970s. Dubbed the ...

Frying Pan Tower is a unique ocean bed and breakfast that is part of the growing trend of off-the-grid travel.

How's this for an adventurous volunteer opportunity? Volunteers spend days and nights surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, inside North Carolina's most fascinating and beautiful historic sites: The ...

Set 55km off the coast of North Carolina at the southernmost edge of an area known as the "Graveyard of the Atlantic", guests at the remote 25.9-metre-high Frying Pan Tower enjoy panoramic views of ...

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