Warsaw, Poland, is an amazing place, filled with lots of old stuff.
The lions at the presidential palace, in Warsaw, Poland, date back to the year 1821:
Probably, the telephone in my hotel room dates back even longer:
Interestingly, if you’re like me the sight of an old rotary dialphone immediately brings back the sound I used to hear when I dialed it. If you are interested in more “obsolete sounds” like this, there is a fabulous website called the Museum of Endangered Sounds that tries to record and store sounds like this for posterity.