u/Kaggerty

We recently brought a new house that has a handful of these silly columns scattered about the property. They seem to be solid concrete wrapped in PVC (with rocks from the property inexplicably balanced on across the tops). We think these are super dumb, but the prices we were quoted to remove them are even dumber. Any ideas on what if anything can be done to embrace their continued existence (any suggestions for how to make these look less dumb without paying many monies for a man with a heavy machinery to tear them down)?