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.
Broadway Tower, Worcestershire, England
The Dunmore Pineapple in Scotland (attributed to William Chambers)
Built in 1912, the Swallow's Nest is one of the Neo-Gothic châteaux fantastiques in Crimea.
Modern reconstruction of the Turkish Tent, a permanent structure at Painshill, Surrey
The English landscape garden, also called English landscape park or simply the English garden, is a style of "landscape" garden which emerged in England in the early 18th century, and spread across Europe, replacing the more formal, symmetrical French formal garden which had emerged in the 17th century as the principal gardening style of Europe. The English garden presented an idealized view of nature. Created and pioneered by William Kent and others, the "informal" garden style originated as a revolt against the architectural garden and drew inspiration from landscape paintings by Salvator Rosa, Claude Lorrain, and Nicolas Poussin.
Rotunda at Stowe Gardens (1730-38)
The paintings of Claude Lorrain inspired Stourhead and other English landscape gardens.
Castle Howard (1699–1712), a predecessor of the English garden modelled on the gardens of Versailles
Ionic Temple at Chiswick House in west London