folly
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thumbnail|Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower, [[Worcestershire, England]] thumb|The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers) thumb|Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in [[Crimea.]] thumb|Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill, [[Surrey]]
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thumbnail|Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower, [[Worcestershire, England]] thumb|The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers) thumb|Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in [[Crimea.]] thumb|Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill, [[Surrey]]
In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings.