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, England]] , England, built in the 1700s to resemble Gothic-era ruins]] .]] In Architecture , a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be something other than what it is. The term comes from the fact that such structures have often been dubbed " of architect or builder 's Folly", in the sense of foolishness or madness. Follies are usually found in parks or large grounds of houses and Stately Home s; they may sometimes have been deliberately built to look partially in Ruins . They were especially popular from the end of the 16th Century to the 18th Century . The Parc De La Villette in Paris has a number of modern follies by different architects. EXAMPLES Britain
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