Cape Hatteras
My family--my extended family of both parents, two grandmothers and one grandfather--visited Cape Hatteras in the summer of 1963. We climbed the circular stairs to the top of the light. I remember the view, not from the top but from the window on the landing as clearly as you see it in the pictures above. That same view would be impossible to behold today because of shore erosion and the relocation of the lighthouse itself.
About the Cape Hatteras Light, Wikipedia has this to say--"In 1999, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse had to be moved from its original location at the edge of the ocean to safer ground 2,870 feet (870 m) inland. Due to erosion of the shore, the lighthouse was just 120 feet from the ocean’s edge and was in imminent danger.....Despite some opposition, work progressed and the move was completed on September 14, 1999.....The Cape Hatteras Light House Station Relocation Project became known as “The Move of the Millennium".....The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse is the tallest masonry structure ever moved (200 feet tall and weighing 5,000 tons)."