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Lighthouse staircase - Travel Photography

Lighthouse staircase – Travel Photography

Inside the St. Augustine Lighthouse, there is a strong undercurrent of darkness that permeates the core of the structure.  Stairs and rails grab hold of this structure, and a window in the midst of all gives a view of the stray sunshine leaking in weakly as it continues to stand tall and majestic off the coast of Florida. The ghostly light transforms and morphs into a phantom image that begins to…

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Congress Inn, Miami, Florida.

Originally built as the Voyager Motel and later re-branded under the the Congress Inn name, this Mid-century Modern motor hotel looks as if it were designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer:

It is not the right angle that attracts me, nor the straight line, hard and inflexible, created by man. What attracts me is the free and sensual curve — the curve that I find in the mountains of my country, in the sinuous course of its rivers, in the body of the beloved woman.

And the Voyager (or Congress, whichever you prefer) was certainly no stranger to womanly curves. In the 1970s the motel served as backdrop for the porn classic, Deep Throat. Unfortunately, that claim to fame wasn't enough to save her. Like the Congress Inn brand name, the Voyager probably faded some time in the 1980s. Today the site is occupied by houses.