The USSR automated the Aniva lighthouse and withdrew all the workers in 1990. It continued to be powered by atomic batteries until 2006, since when it has been abandoned. Now tourists come to peer ...

The abandoned seaside island housing a nuclear powered lighthouse towering more than 100 feet (31 metres) above its rocky perch on Cape Aniva in a remote location in the southernmost tip of ...

When it was operational the 31-meter-high Aniva lighthouse could comfortably accommodate 12 people. For almost 30 years, however, the lighthouse has been abandoned and is slowly collapsing under ...

The abandoned ... lighthouse while it was under USSR control. Its remote location made delivering supplies and spare parts to the workers challenging. This led to officials deciding to make the ...

Every year, hundreds of tourists make the perilous climb to the top of a degrading nuclear lighthouse in far-eastern Russia. The abandoned structure is perched on a remote rock at Cape Aniva ...

A CREEPY lighthouse left to rot sits ominously on a remote Island, yet hundreds of tourists make the treacherous trip there each year. The abandoned site, located on Cape Aniva island in the far ...