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If you think this is a contribution to Manic Monday (Mē), then I have to disappoint you a bit (😁), according to the story below.

This photo was taken on October 31th, 2020 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. It looks like a lighthouse has been photographed. In fact, this is not a lighthouse, but the low light of a Leading light that stood at Hook of Holland. A 'low light' implies that there is also a 'high light'. How does this work? That is actually very simple. If the helmsman on the ship has the lamps of the two lights exactly in a vertical line, and he follows that line, he will end up exactly at the harbor entrance or to the water way/river/canal for approaching the harbor/port.

During the construction of the Nieuwe Waterweg (1863 - 1872), a light line was needed to guide shipping safely to the port of Rotterdam. After the construction of the first Maasvlakte at the beginning of the 1970s, new light lines must be built. The depicted Low Light was superfluous and to give it a new (educational) function, it was moved to the Maritime Museum, located in the heart of Rotterdam, hence my title.