New Website Spotlights Crappy Souvenirs

Mount Rushmore Oil Lamp

Writer Doug Lansky has made a career out of finding the humor in travel. His book The Titanic Awards is a fascinating collection of the best of travel gone wrong.

Now Lansky has launched CrapSouvenirs.com, a website dedicated to all the tourism-related "crap" that people tend to purchase and then later wonder why.

The site is a collection of photos submitted by readers showing the world's worst souvenirs, from a Mount Rushmore Oil Lamp (right) to a Pope John Paul II bottle opener. Many of the souvenirs are a bit risqué, which probably says a lot about the whole world of travel and tourism.

Lansky is also running a contest -- the person submitting the best photo of a crappy souvenir this year wins an iPad 2. Too bad I recently threw out my "Alcatraz Psycho Ward Outpatient" T-shirt.