Cape Blanco Lighthouse, Oregon

Cape Blanco, near the southwest corner of Oregon, is the second-most westerly point on the West Coast of the United States. At the tip of Cape Blanco is a lighthouse, built in 1870, to warn ships away from the rocky shore. There are around 50 lighthouses on the West Coast of the United States, marking westerly points, all of which have been automated, and all of which are maintained by eager lighthouse enthusiasts and historians, who regard these beacons with a level of affection unsurpassed by other forms of infrastructural architecture.