The Scotland of the imagination is a land of rolling green hills, kilt-wearing bagpipers, and crumbling castles. Scotland is one of the most beautiful place on earth.

The Falkirk wheel, Falkirk, Scotland, United Kingdom

Dunnottar castle from the beach, Stonehaven, Scotland, United Kingdom

Bow fiddle, Portknockie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Eilean Donan castle, Dornie, Scotland, United Kingdom

Sligachan bridge, Isle of Skye, Scotland, United Kingdom

Kilchurn castle, Lochawe, Scotland, United Kingdom

Loch Lomond, Scotland, United Kingdom

Tantallon castle, North Berwick, Scotland, United Kingdom

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The Baily Lighthouse is a fine lighthouse on the northernmost point of Dublin Bay. The first lighthouse on this site dates from 1667. It was a cottage and square tower with a coal-fired beacon. The lighthouse we see today was built in 1814 and was equipped with fixed white catoptric light comprising 24 Argand oil lamps and reflectors. The granite tower is 13 m high and rises 41 m (134 feet) above sea level. Some of the best views in the whole Dublin area await from the parking lot above the lighthouse, looking out over the entire bay as far south as Dun Laoghaire, Bray, and the north Wicklow coast.

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