One-tank trip: Tybee Island, Ga.

Amanda Miller Allen / AJC Special

The Tybee Island Museum and Light Station is more than a landmark on the island. Aside from climbing the 178 steps of the lighthouse for a view of the beach and ocean, visitors can tour the restored head lighthouse keeper?s house, built in 1881, and see how the last keeper and his family lived in the 1930s and ’40s.