Telephones

This police call box harkens back to an era of pre-radio communications, and has a rather unique feature.

After the band included its number in one of their songs, the box became a monument to the musical group.

The phone booths in this English town have distinctly milky hues.

This red London phone booth once stood in front of Buckingham Palace and was used by the queen.

Its vast collection of wondrous gadgets details the fascinating history of information technology.

A unique blue and yellow phone booth in America's "Little Sweden."

The lecture hall where Alexander Graham Bell first demonstrated the long-distance phone call.

An easy-to-miss plaque marks the building that first held this 19th-century telephone innovation.

An ode to the classic piece of British street furniture.

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

The Metropolitan Police refurbished the blue box (perhaps not coincidentally) the same year "Doctor Who" returned to TV screens.

The wooden telephone box hidden away in London's Piccadilly was the original prototype of the iconic kiosk.