Pictures of the world’s wackiest phone booths?
We thought it was a good call, so we scoured the world to find them.
We found a seagull-shaped calling kiosk in Turkey, a brain-shaped booth in Brazil and one in Alaska chipped out of a block of ice.
Another, in Osaka, was transformed into a giant fish tank.
Some of the booths featured here were artist installations – but some are permanent fixtures.
Scroll down and dial into a world of weirdness…
This phone booth in Sao Paulo, Brazil, was the brainchild of Brazilian artist Carla Pires de Carvalho Fernandes. It was installed as part of a phone booth redesign that was sponsored by telecom company Vivo
A phone booth with a shell-shaped cover turns heads in the coastal town of Buzios in Brazil, left, while in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul in central-west Brazil, a call box is disguised as a giant yellow flower, right
A quirky chicken-shaped phone booth spotted in Brazil. The exact location wasn’t specified by the photographer, left. Right, a telephone booth was crafted out of ice at the 2011 World Ice Art Championships in Fairbanks, Alaska
A yellow telephone booth blends into a Homer Simpson mural behind it, acting as the characters gaping mouth. It isn’t known where the image, which went viral, was taken, left. A girl makes a call in a Hello Kitty-inspired public telephone. Again, there is no word on its location, right
A public pay phone decorated with a colourful umbrella seen in the colonial town of Olinda on Brazil’s northeast coast, left, and one on a seagull-shaped stand ready to serve passersby in the Turkish coastal resort town of Antalya, right
This isolated, rusty phone booth was installed on the east coast of Iceland in 2006 to commemorate 100 years since the country’s first international telegraph cable. The underwater communication line ran from Scotland to Iceland. This booth is located on the side of a small road heading north of Seydisfjordur and no calls go in or out
The cherry blossom is a big attraction in the Japanese city of Yokohama – and so is this bizarre retro phone box near Motomachi Park
A rather grand phone booth in the heritage area of Dubai, left. On the right are a couple of dolphin-shaped phone stands in Istanbul, Turkey. Fin-tastic? Your call
An arty payphone certainly stands out in the colourful Indonesian village of Kampung Tridi, left. Meanwhile, a phone box in the Japanese city of Osaka has been re-purposed as a fish tank, pictured right. It was installed as a piece of public art to raise awareness around the way goldfish are mass-produced for consumers
Two phone booths stand back to back, with an eye-catching telephone receiver design, left. The public telephones were snapped by Chicago-based photographer Kevin Kilma, but their location is unknown. Pictured right, British artist Bert Gilbert created a padded ‘cellphone’ box in 2012 as part of an artistic initiative run by BT in support of ChildLine’s 25th anniversary. There were dozens of quirky telephone booths installed around London to mark the occasion
A vintage telephone booth adds a splash of colour to the wintry landscape in the Reinickendorf district of Berlin, left. Pictured right, a traditional wooden phone booth in Helsinki, Finland, sports a unique design, with a raised platform to stand on and cupboard-style doors
A telephone booth on the streets of London got a colourful knitted makeover courtesy of artist Deadly Knitshade, left. Pictured right is an ingenious mobile phone booth attached to a bicycle that tourist Ken Banks found in Uganda. The price of 200 Ugandan shillings per unit is equivalent to about four pence or five U.S. cents
A creative temple-inspired phone booth photographed in Japan blends into its serene surroundings
A phone booth in the art district of Chattanooga with a Russian aesthetic, left. On the right is a ‘fun booth’ in Toronto
A head-turning parrot phone booth was spotted on the streets of Brazil, left. On the right is a telephone that’s perfect for some hollow conversation. It’s not known exactly where the viral shot was taken, but online users have indicated it is also located in Brazil
Telephone booths can certainly come in all shapes and sizes, as these two novel calling spots show. Left, a globe-shaped phone box in an unknown location and right, a phone box located in a hut in the west-central Indian state of Maharashtra
Many phone booths in Brazil are inspired by the country’s indigenous animals, such as the one on the left that’s shaped after a golden lion tamarin monkey. Right, an unusual phone booth snapped in the historic Heritage Village in Dubai
Two telephone booths are housed within giant upturned Dutch clogs in the Brazilian city of Holambra. The town was founded in 1948 by a group of 500 Dutch Catholics looking to resettle after World War II. The name Holambra combines the first letters of Holland, America and Brazil
These giant human-shaped phone booths, spotted on the South Korean island of Jeju, don’t look too inviting