New York, July 12 -- Celebrity worship may have officially reached its most absurd stage. Fans have paid 25 USD each for tiny boxes filled with cigarette butts, bottle caps and other rubbish collected from the streets outside Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding venue.

New York artist Justin Gignac gathered the waste from public streets near Madison Square Garden following the couple's July 3 wedding. He packed the items into 50 transparent cubes, branded them as "NYC Pocket Garbage: Not Invited Edition" and sold every piece within 24 hours.

The contents included used straws, plastic utensils, caution tape, a Ring Pop, a lone AirPod and even an ovulation test kit. Buyers couldn't select what they received, meaning someone knowingly s...