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Bath, England

Grey K2 Phone Booth

An iconic British fixture in an unconventional color.
Horror hotlines celebrated one of the genre's favorite tools of torture: the telephone.
horror

The Heyday of Horror Hotlines and Why We Still Love to Fear the Phone

A lesser-known subgenre of the 900-number boom allowed callers to connect with Freddy Krueger and chat with zombies.
Pat Cassels March 21, 2025
Kawasaki, Japan

Friendship Tree Duet Phone

A rare double-receiver payphone housed in a fake tree.
Springfield, Missouri

Call NOW! Art Installation

A phone booth that combines public art and climate change awareness.
Prairie Grove, Arkansas

Airlight Outdoor Telephone Booth

A mid-century telephone booth still stands, now a long-distance relic of the past.
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Telephone of the Wind

An outlet for connecting to memories of lost loved ones and saying goodbyes you never got to say.
Takoma Park, Maryland

Bird Calls Phone

An old pay phone rewired to play local bird calls and songs at the press of a button.
Boston, Massachusetts

Birthplace of the Telephone

A stone marker commemorating the first time sound was transmitted over wires.
Washington, D.C.

Jokes Phone

Press 1 for knock-knock jokes.
Heber-Overgaard, Arizona

Travis Walton's Phone Booth

In 1975, a forestry worker in Arizona claimed to have been abducted by a UFO.
Steventon, England

Jane Austen's Telephone Box

The world's smallest Austen museum is inside an unassuming phone booth.
#9 C Switchboard from Tucumcari, circa 1958.
Albuquerque, New Mexico

Telephone Pioneer Museum of New Mexico

An ode to the history of telephones inside a telephone building.
science

Podcast: America’s 'Quiet Zone'

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team September 21, 2022
The last remaining public payphone kiosk was removed from the streets of Manhattan in May 2022.
objects of intrigue

The Last Public Payphone Kiosk on the Streets of New York

How the once-ubiquitous convenience became a rare museum piece.
Shoshi Parks July 26, 2022
A selection of antique phones at the E.H. Danner Museum in San Angelo, Texas.
museums

Unplug at This West Texas Telephone Museum

The Danner Museum is a tribute to the phones of yore and the air-conditioning of today.
Golden Gate Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada

The First Telephone in Las Vegas

The so-called "Father of Las Vegas" had the city's first telephone installed in his office in 1907.
roadside attractions

Podcast: Phone Booth on a Roof

Join us for a daily celebration of the world’s most wondrous, unexpected, even strange places.
The Podcast Team June 7, 2022
A trio of Shyvers Multiphones from John Bennett's collection.
music

Early On-Demand Music Streaming Required Lots of Nickels

In the Pacific Northwest 70-plus years ago, a telephone-based jukebox connected callers to their favorite tunes.
Michelle Harris November 10, 2021