Ozymandias On The Plains, Texas, US

Eccentric millionaire Stanley Marsh 3 (not III; he dislikes Roman numerals,) has no relation to the South Park character … we think. He commissioned this piece, which was completed in 1997 by artist Lightnin’ McDuff.


It’s somewhat ironically named after a Percy Bysshe Shelley poem about the futility of building monuments.

The plaque explains that Shelley wrote the poem on that spot, after coming across those very ruins, which of course is ridiculous since the sculpture is less than twenty years old. The gym socks were painted on by pranksters, but Marsh liked it so much he took credit for it.