Just south of the Columbia River on the Oregon coast is a tiny speck of an island with the remnants of a lighthouse perched atop it. Known as 'Terrible Tilly' for its dangerous and inhospitable conditions and its location just offshore from Tillamook Head, the lighthouse is now only reachable by helicopter.
Built in the late 1800s and active until the 1950s, it eventually became the most expensive to operate lighthouse in the US. Unless you're the type that enjoys social distancing, tending to the lighthouse would have been a less than pleasant job. Storms sometimes knocked out communication with the outside world and occasionally damaged the lighthouse itself (one threw a log through a window) and multiple people were killed on or around the lighthouse.
The island is now part of the Oregon Islands National Wildlife Refuge so even the current owners can only visit it when the sea birds aren't nesting. For the rest of us, the closest we can come to the island (and for the best views) is to hike the Tillamook Head trail. Part of the Pacific Coast Trail, you can hike from Seaside to Cannon Beach and gaze down upon Terrible Tilly along the way (just don't do what I did and hike it in sandals, it gets a bit muddy). There's also an old WWII bunker along the trail (although you can't go in it) and nearby is the best place for viewing the lighthouse. Someone had the bright idea to put a barrier across that lookout but it's made of braided steel cable and one can easily climb through it (I'm not recommending that but to get the shots I wanted I may have). The photo above is one I took looking down from there instead of at the lighthouse.
I don't know about y'all but that is one commute to work that I could do without... How would like to work in a place like that? The Pacific Ocean appears to take exception with its continued existence and is doing everything it can to correct that situation (one storm took about 100 tons of rock off the island), one day it will succeed and Terrible Tilly will no longer exist.