Do you have something hanging around your apartment, taking up psychic space? Maybe it's under the bed or in a shoebox. Maybe it's a cream-colored Fender jazz bass... but it doesn't have to be that. Heartbroken Eastern Europeans have been contributing to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Croatia. You send them your romantic emblems and tchotchkes, and suddenly a dead cell phone with the caption, "It was 300 days too long. He gave me his mobile phone so I couldn't call him any more" becomes art. Our favorite entry?

It's a prosthetic leg, from a war vet who fell in love with his social worker.

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