The Needles - Isle of Wight, UK

At the western tip of the Isle of Wight, three white chalk rocks rise out of the sea with a red-and-white lighthouse at the end. These are The Needles, each about 100 feet (30 m) tall.

The lighthouse has been warning ships away from them since 1859 and has run automatically since 1994. On stormy days big waves crash around the rocks, and calm summer evenings can bring stunning sunsets over the sea.

On the clifftop above stands the Needles Old Battery, a fort built in the 1860s, and the cliffs at nearby Alum Bay are famous for sand in many different colors, which visitors have been layering into glass jars since Victorian times.

Did You Know? There used to be a fourth, needle-shaped rock here called Lot's Wife. It collapsed into the sea in a storm in 1764.

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