Are You a Lighthouse Leader?

My travels have taken me to many interesting sites around the world: Michelangelo’s majestic David in Florence. The Leaning Tower of Pisa. Mount Rushmore. Scotland’s Edinburgh Castle. London’s Big Ben.

But I’m especially drawn to sites that, although beautiful in their own way, are more about function than aesthetics. I love lighthouses.

The first lighthouses were built centuries ago to guide mariners. Lighthouse construction boomed at the turn of the 18th century along with burgeoning levels...