Now Is Your Chance to Own a Lighthouse

The U.S. is auctioning off (and giving away) 10 historic lighthouses in June.

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The first lighthouse was built more than 2,000 years ago, but in recent years, the iconic structures have started to lose their shine—or at least since ships started using GPS to avoid crashing into rocks or running aground on the shoreline. However, unlike pay phones, we’ve decided to keep some of these beacons of an earlier era around for nostalgia, historical context, or purely aesthetic reasons. And right now, you have the rare chance to own a piece of obsolete history yourself, for a price or completely for free, as long as you meet the requirements.

The U.S. General Service Administration recently issued a press release announcing plans to auction off, or give away, a record number of lighthouses this year—10 of them, to be exact. The opportunity comes thanks to the National Historic Lighthouse Preservation Act of 2000, which aims to ease the financial strain on taxpayers by selling or giving away government-owned lighthouses.