Unless she wasn't more than just a week long, alcohol-induced fling, the end of a relationship always leaves behind not only memories of love lost, but also a bunch of crap that you have no use for. Whether it is a sweater, her CD collections or a photo, you either have to do the ackward drop off exchange or you can donate it all to the Museum of Broken Relationships.

Drazen Grubisic and Olinka Vistica, both Croation artists, created the Museum of Broken Relationships, which is a website (as well as a traveling exhibit) that offers the lovelorn a place to store their relationship memories, as well as share it with others who want to share in your pain, or mock your misery. Although the Museum of Broken Relationships has traveled through Croatia, delighting visitors along the way, it looks as if the exhibit hasn't actually found a permanent home as of yet. However, the website offers its own online exhibit that people around the world can visit and/or contribute to whenever they want.

According to the site, they understand that someone who has recently been unlucky in love may want to destroy anything that will remind them of what they have lost. Rather than destroy and regret the hasty decision later, they urge you to register with the site and create your own online exhibit. "By registering on the web pages of the Museum you become its donor and here you can store everything that reminds you of your bygone love: e-mails, photographs, SMS messages. If your memories still trigger off painful memories 'lock' your exhibits for a specified period: 3 months, 6 months or however long you need for recovering. Simply 'remove' them into the museum during convalescence and participate in creation of "collective emotional history"."

If you aren't interested in becoming a donor, but want to see what else other heartbroken people have donated, then check out the exhibit section of the site. To find exhibits, simply click on any of the puzzle pieces on the Rubik's Cube-like puzzle and you'll get to see the items that they just couldn't let go of.

» Land of the brokenships.