Eartha, the World's Largest Rotating Globe sits in Yarmouth, Maine, in the lobby of the DeLorme Map Company.

SUBMITTED BY: Matt and Traci Suppa   LOCATION: Yarmouth, Maine (2010)

Not wanting to play favorites with any one continent, Matt chooses a random stretch of ocean to rest on his shoulders.

You have to give the DeLorme Map Company credit: They didn’t skimp on their Guinness Book of World Records office decor!

Source: DeLorme.com

(Traci and Matt Suppa plan their family vacations around America’s superlative tourist traps. Read about their adventures at “Go Big or Go Home.”)

An ice cream stand in Woods Hole, the famous Cape Cod oceanographic research community.

SUBMITTED BY: Brian Henderson   LOCATION: Woods Hole, Massachusetts (2010)

We admire Brian’s dedication and overall flexibility. Most contributors would look at the height of the lobster claw and say, “Screw it, my leg doesn’t bend that way!”

(Photojournalist Brian Henderson is one of Tacky Tourist Photo’s most prolific contributors. Check out his enthusiasm about the Equator, his monster-like appetite for bridges and his phenomenal ability to mimic the dance moves of statues!)

SALIVA ART -- Chicago's Crown Fountain at Millennium Park projects the faces of 1,000 ordinary citizens on a LED Screen-plated tower, creating the illusion that they are spouting out water like a statue.

SUBMITTED BY: Beth H. LOCATION: Chicago, Illinois (2010)

Nothing’s classier than modern art that spits in your hand!

Designed by Spanish artist Jaume Plensa, the Crown Fountain is a modern spin on the tradition of using gargoyles and mythological beasts to spout water in fountains.

The Titanic movie made more than $600 million. Couldn't James Cameron have pitched in with a real movie prop here?

SUBMITTED BY: Monica Brady-Myerov   LOCATION: California

Channeling the spirit of Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in public takes a lot of guts, especially if there is an anxious line of 12-year-olds behind you!

(Monica Brady-Myerov is a senior reporter at Boston’s NPR affiliate, WBUR. She recently interviewed the Tacky Tourist Photos curators on the syndicated “Here & Now” show. The segment airs Monday, Aug. 23 — click here for times and stations near you.)

Yukking it up at Boeing Headquarters

SUBMITTED BY: Hector Alejandro Farias    LOCATION: Seattle, WA (2010)

In the shadows of crazed JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater, here’s evidence that poor judgment at airports is now a national epidemic.

Sky News reports the latest fad in Spanish tourism is leaping from hotel balconies into the swimming pool.

A 20-year-old British tourist is now in a coma after attempting to jump from his hotel balcony into the pool last week while on vacation in Ibiza, Spain.

Apparently, the thrill-seeking fad of “balconing” is sweeping the Iberian peninsula.

If your vacation is so dull that you need to risk death to enjoy yourself, maybe you need to choose a different location!

New Hampshire's Story Land amusement park.

SUBMITTED BY: Greg Constantine LOCATION: Glen, NH (2010)

Alice knew it would never last. Their forbidden love was awkward, punctuated by her delicate facial hair tickling the flamingo’s razor-sharp beak…

If you’d like to read more of this interspecies romance, drop us a line at tackytouristphotos@gmail.com

(Greg Constantine is a literature buff and science fiction filmmaker with a weakness for Cheetos).

This souvenir snowglobe includes a plastic trash bag ruining the pure Manhattan snow.

The above headline is the flattering endorsement we just received from Away.com, a witty travel blog owned by Orbitz.

Editor Lacy Morris names her Top 10 Tacky Souvenirs (Photo-ops @ Pisa are #4) and her historical insights on snowglobes are worth the click alone!

A sanitized chunk of the Berlin Wall makes it seem like the Cold War was one giant art project.

SUBMITTED BY: Ilya Mirman    LOCATION: Berlin via Washington DC (2010)

This kind of aggressive posturing at the Berlin Wall once might have attracted gunfire from the East Side.

But in Washington’s flashy Newseum — the mainstream media’s shrine to itself — it is quite safe to be a rabblerouser.

The Newseum also has an authentic “Death Tower” from the Wall, but that doesn’t really lend itself to cutesy photo-ops.

"Senator Bond, don't make me angry. You won't like me when I'm angry!"

SUBMITTED BY: Tacky Tourist Photos    LOCATION: Washington, D.C. (2010)

About 95 percent of U.S. Sen. Kit Bond’s office is plastered with Harry Truman memorabilia. The former U.S. president used to work there when he had the Missouri gig.

But amidst the historical exhibits, we were delighted to find that the Incredible Hulk is also given the appropriate amount of respect. (The senator is on the left).

Bond’s front office aides didn’t know the backstory. If you do, please drop us a line!

(Might U.S. Sen. Christopher “Kit” Bond (R-MO), who is wrapping up his fourth term in the Senate, be retiring so he can spend more time at Comic-Con?)