If you can organize a boat to get you out here, this is a must-do day trip. It takes about an hour to get there from the main outposts on the Koster Islands. Home to Sweden's westernmost lighthouse, you really can imagine you're standing almost at

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If you can organize a boat to get you out here, this is a must-do day trip. It takes about an hour to get there from the main outposts on the Koster Islands. Home to Sweden's westernmost lighthouse, you really can imagine you're standing almost at the edge of a continent here. First established in 1850 to provide navigational aid in the often-stormy waters, today only one of the towers is still in operation. Now automated, the lighthouses on Ursholmen were operated by a team of three lighthouse-keepers who lived on the island throughout the year. The small community consisted of accommodations for the families as well as a schoolhouse. Today the buildings are used by marine-biology researchers. Look out from the striated black lines etched on the rock, which is tubes of volcanic lava that was forced up through the earth's bedrock many thousands of years ago. From more recent times, a disused quarry and equipment from the early 20th century can be seen on the secondary island at Ursholmen. Here, workers chipped out the hard granite rock for use in cemetery headstones and building materials in far-off, relatively speaking, places like Aberdeen, Scotland.

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