>> Click to enlarge << Crooked River - The lighthouse was built as a ... Photo by: Harry Pettit

One of the more unique styles of lighthouses is the tall spindly lighthouses usually located off-shore in the middle of the water.

>> Click to enlarge << Gasparilla Island Rear Range -This lighthouse ... Photo by: Alan R. Headley

These lights are seen across the USA but they are predominantly in Florida, particularly the Keys. Here are a few of those incredible lighthouse structures that I find so very unique.

>> Click to enlarge << Sanibel Island - The grounds are now open to the ... Photo by: Alan Bot

>> Click to enlarge << Anclote Key - The lighthouse was relighted on ... Photo by: Tammy Wolfe

>> Click to enlarge << Cape San Blas - The fourth lighthouse, the ... Photo by: Selina D. Wood

>> Click to enlarge << Hillsboro Inlet - Tours of this beautiful station ... Photo by: Mary Hannah Clodfelter

>> Click to enlarge << Fowey Rocks – This light, like its near twin ... Photo by: Harry Pettit

>> Click to enlarge << Sombrero Key – Another Florida light designed by ... Photo by: Gayle & Dennis Stemac

>> Click to enlarge << Carysfort Reef – The lighthouse, designed by ... Photo by: Bob & Sandra Shanklin, The Lighthouse People.

>> Click to enlarge << Alligator Reef – This was the most expensive reef ... Photo by: Tom McGuire

>> Click to enlarge << American Shoal – This near twin to Fowey Rocks ... Photo by: Judith Trotter

>> Click to enlarge << Sand Key – Badly damaged by fire in 1989, the ... Photo by: Richard Bunemann

This story appeared in the Mar/Apr 2011 edition of Lighthouse Digest Magazine. The print edition contains more stories than our internet edition, and each story generally contains more photographs - often many more - in the print edition. For subscription information about the print edition, click here.