Follies and Grottoes in England

A strange Georgian folly sits atop a lonely hill.

This tallest folly in the world began its life as an elaborate factory chimney.

The hidden "ballroom" under a mansion lake was built by a criminal who ate a cyanide pill during his trial.

This crumbling folly looks like an enchanted left over from Middle Earth.

Created hundreds of years ago, the magical follies and landscapes at this park were almost lost to time before being restored.

This remote castle was built to be a wealthy businessman's palace of vice but is now simply a historic vacation cottage.

This tunnel entrance is built to resemble a grand castle but no one is quite sure why.

This logic-defying 16th-century Tudor manor still stands to the delight and astonishment of onlookers.

This ruined folly was originally built to honor a failed American state that would have become "Westsylvania."

A modern English garden of eccentric beasts, follies, and oddities.

A petite castle folly in the English countryside.

An octagonal folly tower overlooking the sea.

Fantastically decorated underground chambers built in the 1760s.

Remnants of a Victorian garden feature sitting in public woodland.

Museum about life, death, and cannibalism in the Stone Age.

Gothic tower mentioned in Thomas Hardy poem "The Channel Firing."