A gothic folly built by an eccentric as a museum is up for sale.

It was a piece of folly built by a Spanish noble towards the end of the three centuries when Spain ruled the Philippines.

After so many years of submitting to his whims, the complex now recalls a folly built by a mid-19th-century English gentleman, complete with ceramic menagerie.

The beacon is a folly built in 1830 in the style of an ionic temple to a design by Lewis Vulliamy.

There are some 'ruinous' arches in the 'Abbey Gardens', but this is really a folly built in the 1920s.

It looks magical, unreal, a folly built to amuse a child.

Cyfarthfa Castle, an extravagant folly built as a family home by the iron master William Crawshay in 1825, is a museum of local history.

In a recent phone interview, Ms. Pulitzer said her critics saw the foundation "as a rich woman's folly built on the backs of the taxpayers."

Behind the chateau is a red neo-Gothic folly built in the 19th century, most of which has fallen down.

Broadway Tower, a folly built for Lady Coventry in 1797.