When you travel on a vacation and have people back home excited about your trip, souvenirs may be required for your return. Oh the obligation to get everyone you know a little something so they can share in the enjoyment of you taking a trip.

There are the unique items that you can only buy at the special landmarks. They are the valuable items you cannot find elsewhere, and provide the special feeling that only you can value.

Then there are the items like puzzles that are sometimes imported to the landmark and marketed to the tourists. Recently I saw an imported puzzle of the skyline of New York that was for sale at a New York souvenir shop.

After packing it in the suitcase that barely had enough room to fit the puzzle let alone the other unique souvenirs and getting it home, I found that the manufacturer had a website.

On their website they featured skylines of many other cities, some that I also traveled to. Their prices were half that of the shop. Because it was an out of state purchase, there was no sales tax either. Shipping was inexpensive and the puzzles arrived quickly and undamaged.

If you don’t mind the slight difference in how you get the product, but that you actually get it home, it’s an easy way to bring souvenirs home. If packing space is tight, you can buy the items at the landmark and ship it home, hopefully safe and in one piece.

If you want to save even more money, forget traveling to the landmark and instead checkout the online marketplaces where you can buy the items. But if you did that, you wouldn’t be traveling and accrue all the sentimental memories that visiting unique landmarks can bring for years to come.