In Dublin there was a monument locally called “The Floozie in the Jacuzzi” (“floozie” is someone promiscuous) which apparently the artist quite liked. It got moved off the main thoroughfare at some point.
We have The Bean here in Chicago, and the artist hates that we don’t call it “Cloud Gate.”
But, like, look at this thing. It’s a bean.
Officially https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus_(sculpture)
Locally: butt plug gnome
A red version was unveiled in May 2018 in Oslo, Norway. The unveiling was done by a man pulling off the cover, suspended by an overhead crane with hooks through his skin.
Hey uuh what the fuck
Welcome to Norway, home of the stave church, cheese slicer and death metal!
Oh, and this is in my home town:
Norway can be extreme sometimes (maybe that’s why there’s an Extreme Sport Festival).
That’s supposed to be a CHRISTMAS TREE? hahahaha
Titty Sphinx
Idk if it classifies as a monument, but I present touchdown Jesus from southern Ohio.
100% what I was after when posting. That’s a great name haha.
Actually the official name with a fun pronunciation:
Champoeg State Park.
Champoeg - Sham-pooie.
https://stateparks.oregon.gov/index.cfm?do=park.profile&parkId=79
I had my high school reunion there. Lovely in the summer, dreary in the winter.
My friends and I always referred to the Salesforce Tower as the “Sales Dong”
We are more basic and stick to “penis tower”. A true to life embodiment of capitalism.
Absolutely. Not gonna lie, it is pretty cool seeing the glans all lit up
The big phallus in San Francisco? Sales Dong is a great name.
Atlanta has the BAY Bridge. Atlanta is nowhere near any bay of any kind and it’s just a bridge over the interstate. BAY is actually an acronym so the real meaning is the Big Ass Yellow bridge, although the news and other “clean” sources will use the term but say it’s the “big and yellow” bridge.
Posankka. Pig duck.
Pig Hill. Legend has it that a family with major facial deformation (pig faces) due to inbreeding lived up there in the woods and killed hikers who got too close to their homestead.
A local filmmaker made a horror movie about it in the past few years. I haven’t seen it, and I don’t know if it’s available online.
Sterling Heights, Michigan has the golden butthole
It’s not exactly a landmark or monument, but National Defense Head Quarters in Ottawa has a few:
The Cowering Inferno
The Shit show on the Rideau
Oh so THAT’S where my sleep paralysis demon lives.
I used to go to uni in this city which had the “horse’s butt” / “horse butt”. It’s just a regular horse soldier kind of statue, nothing special about it; however, due to it being right in front of one of the university buildings, among students it (or the surrounding area) was called like that. I doubt the creator had the title “horse’s rear” in mind.
