On a freezing morning in 1903, two Ohio bicycle makers flew four times on the Outer Banks. Here is how they got there and how a lifesaver took the photo.
Read the storyNine months after it stopped the CSS Virginia, the USS Monitor went down in a gale off Cape Hatteras. Its wreck was found in 1973, and its turret was raised in 2002.
In 1999 engineers jacked up a 4,800-ton brick tower on North Carolina's Outer Banks and pushed it 2,900 feet inland, a few feet at a time, to save it from the sea.
In early 1942, U-boats hunted tankers against the glow of American towns off Cape Hatteras. The toll was heavy before convoys and a British trawler's loss changed the war.
