An American family’s unique ice cream business is literally making waves in New York’s waters. Eric Mann and his daughter, Caitlin, sail a boat equipped with an ice cream machine through the coves and canals of the Amityville and Massapequa areas of Long Island, serving scoops of homemade ice cream to boaters and neighbors with private docks on weekends.

Their cherry vanilla, chocolate, mint chip, cookie dough, and cookies and cream flavors, priced at $8 for a small cup and $13 for a large one, always sell out.

Mann’s Homemade Ice Cream has become such a hit that the boat is now booked for birthdays, communions, graduations, and pool parties, the New York Post (NYP) reported.

“We’re already 10 times more popular than when we started last summer,” Caitlin told the NYP.

Meanwhile, a volunteer community dedicated to preserving a historic Coast Guard light station has, since 2012, been offering three-night stays for $600 in the structure, which has been repurposed as tourist accommodation.

A TikTok video of the Frying Pan Tower (FPT) posted by charter boat captain Austin Aycock, who ferries guests to and from the site, racked up 2.2 million views, reflecting the public’s fascination with the unusual destination.

Without the conventional lobby entrance found in commercial hotels, FPT guests arriving by boat are hoisted to the main deck via a high-speed lift that carries them 80 feet into the air in under a minute.

Guests may also charter a helicopter, which drops them on the helipad atop the decommissioned lighthouse located 34 miles offshore and rising 135 feet above the Atlantic Ocean.

Guests can fish, snorkel over a protected reef, skeet shoot using biodegradable targets, and tee off golf balls made of fish food into the waters below, which teem with great white, bull and tiger sharks.

The tower sits squarely in hurricane alley, where tropical storms routinely batter the rusting structure with winds exceeding 100 miles per hour.

In a medical emergency, only a helicopter or boat can evacuate a sick guest, earning the hotel a reputation as one of the world’s most dangerous accommodations.

Aycock told the NYP that the longest stay by guests in the tower — which has eight bedrooms, a stainless steel kitchen, a washer and dryer, hot showers, and high-speed internet powered by solar energy — was two weeks.