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.
Monumento a Luis Battle Berres
We all call it.so much “Los cuernos de Battle” (Battles’s Horns) most don’t even know it’s real name.In my state, Colorado in the western US, we have this statue.
Official name: Blue Mustang
Our name: Blucifer
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
The German city I used to live in has an oversized pedestrian overpass with three large openings or holes. It never had an official name (as it was never intended as a monument or sight), but right from the start it was locally known as the Elefantenklo (“elephant loo”), or E-Klo.
These days it’s often considered Gießen’s most well-known landmark, which… tells you something about the place.
German wiki with photoa: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elefantenklo_(Gießen)
In Perth, WA we have the Cactus, the official name is “Grow Your Own”, but it’s definitely The Cactus.
We also had The Kebab (officially the Ore Obelisk), but it was removed for maintenance years ago, and recently forever replaced with an astronaut, unfortunately.
Sterling Heights, Michigan has the golden butthole
Bierbrunnen aka The penis or cock
They even put giant condom on it for world HIV day once.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.
Talus Balls / Big Balls / Shiny Balls
It’s the Talus Dome, which was dumped cynically by a loud highway bridge on a steep hill because there was a mandatory art % budget that had to go into some public projects at the time IIRC.
Most everyone makes fun of them, although the look kinda cool up close. Also a guy got trapped inside semi recently lmao: https://globalnews.ca/news/9773983/talus-balls-dome-art-west-edmonton-repairs-delay/
Oh balls!
Our university mascot is Bucky Badger, sometimes expanded to Buckingham U. Badger. It’s gone now, but that explains why we called this sculpture Buckingham Phallus:
It’s like something from the bone temple.
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.
Idk if it classifies as a monument, but I present touchdown Jesus from southern Ohio.
Isn’t it gone now? I recall that God was not amused, and it burned down after a lightning bolt hit it.
Yeah It was struck by lightning and burned down. They rebuilt it a few years later with a doofier Jesus.
There was a whole debate amongst the locals ala “is it right to rebuild it?” “Was this a message from god?”, some people were mad they rebuilt it, everyone hated the new design, then everyone moved on.
People over the age of like 30 still call him touchdown Jesus. It’s not the same anymore but it’s what immediately came to mind when I read the prompt.
100% what I was after when posting. That’s a great name haha.
Oh so THAT’S where my sleep paralysis demon lives.
Oh, don’t worry, in real life it was just a crime ridden street hole with lots of heroin addicts and drunk people.vomiting.
Posankka. Pig duck.
