The WORLD's most X-treme ATMs (Vol.1)

On the Pakistan / China border at 4,693 m (15,397 ft) above sea level 

Try robbing an ATM when you can't see and you're being doused in 'smartwater' !

https://protectglobal.com/cases/finance/atms

In New York City opposite Bloomie's on 59th & Lexington

Only Austrian's have this sense of humour

Even Hurricane Katrina couldn't destroy this one

Unveiled at the Enfield branch of Barclays Bank in North London on 27th June 1967 

Outside a supermarket in Nottingham, UK (2015). Intended for wheelchair users, the local council then raised the pavement.

In Sydney, Australia during Gay Pride (2016). It was so successful, ANZ Bank kept it on.

In Hackney, North London where local people still use 'Cockney Rhyming Slang'. "Enter your 'Huckleberry Finn' (PIN) to get yer 'Bangers 'n Mash' (Cash)!"

In a Church outside Austin, Texas (apologies for the pun)

In the Vatican, Rome ... with instructions in Latin !

In Singapore. It dispenses gold bullion mini-bars instead of cash.

In the Wadi Rum car-park, Jordan (2017)

London, England ... with St.Paul's Cathedral in the background

South Africa 

Zaatari Refugee Camp, Jordan (2017)

Vienna, Austria

Cardless and contactless iris recognition is used by Syrian refugees in Jordan (2021)

This ATM at Terminal 3, Heathrow Airport in London dispenses an equivalent of £1.66 million pounds sterling every month

Located about 840 miles from the South Pole at McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica

Located about 800 miles from the North Pole at Svalbard in Norway.

There are only 4 ATMs on Easter Island which lies 3,500 kms west of Chile

This ATM outside a shop in Baghdad, Iraq has to work in temperatures of +48 C

Solar powered ATM in Abu Dhabi

Mounted in a BMW in Poland. Where else ?! Sadly no longer in use. (With thanks to Krzyztof Trojak)

Opposite the railway station at Inverness, Scotland until 2020

In Split, Croatia (Dalmatian Croats must be unusually tall)

The world's first ski-thru ATM at the top of Whistler ski resort in British Columbia, Canada. Hot air stops snow getting in. It even has a glove warmer!  

In Uttar Pradesh, India after de-monetisation

Amman, Jordan. With dynamic currency conversion (£, $, €, JD), deposit taking, cash recirculation, touch-screen, iris scanning, and a real-time video-teller

Benghazi, Libya in 2011 on the introduction of the new Libyan Dinar, this time without the picture of Col. Ghadaffi

This Pyongyan airport ATM is always out of cash

On a 42nd St. Bagel Stall near Times Square (2017)

Money laundering in Brooklyn, New York

Dispenses water on Ekdalia Road, Calcutta, India

The ATM inside this 'Gingerbread Bank' in Philadelphia was covered in chocolate during a Christmas promotion in 2014

In a grocery store 1,400 ft below sea level at Ein Bokek, Israel

Onboard a US Nuclear Submarine somewhere in an Ocean near you. Dispenses tokens rather than cash.

Buckingham Palace, UK ... which is odd, since Her Majesty doesn't use cash?!

Alice Cooper's Car. Rock on !

Sarajevo. Still working at -27 C because it heats the air inside (which blows out of the slot when dispensing cash)

There are more ATMs per head of population in South Korea than anywhere else on the planet

https://businesstech.co.za/news/banking/66360/most-atm-populated-country-in-the-world/

Floating banks serve remote island archipelago's in Indonesia

Staff at GCHQ in the UK need to answer this questions before they can access their cash

As Hank found out in the TV series 'Breaking Bad', multiple pinhole cameras in ATMs can spot aberrant behaviour. An ATM in South Korea even foiled a kidnap gang !

Where else but in France ... ?

(with thanks to Guillaume Lepecq) 

Turns unwanted mobile phones into cash. For more, see 'ecoatm.com'

The first Cryptocurrency (Bitcoin) ATM in the world (in a store in lower Manhattan, Oct 2016)

Dadaab Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya where humanitarian aid is dispensed in the form of cash (Photo by Brendan Bannon)

ATM-style drug dispensaries are being piloted in South Africa https://www.ft.com/content/b2e4c07c-0392-11e9-bf0f-53b8511afd7

Made from Lego, this model ATM actually dispenses plastic bricks of cash !

An ATM outside this shop in the UK spat out £400 to an unsuspecting boy playing nearby https://metro.co.uk/2021/04/16/boy-hands-in-400-mistakenly-spat-out-by-cash-machine-in-asda-14419720/

Idlib in Northern Syria is still one of the most dangerous places on the planet. Yet ATMs still function

With a combined coin hopper and note dispenser, this little ATM can dispense as little as $1 in four 'quarter' coins

ATMs in India allow the purchase of low-cost, short-term personal accident insurance

After heavy rains in Cork, Ireland (2014)

Atom Bank provided soothing live classical music at their ATM in London’s Brick Lane in 2016 (With thanks to msn.com)  

 Some people sure do LOVE cash machines ... !?!?

 Food ATMs improve refugees’ food security in Africa https://reliefweb.int/report/world/food-atm-revolutionizing-providing-food-refugees

 Milk-dispensing ATMs are cropping up all over rural India and Africa

Probably your final financial transaction, you can take out an instant funeral plan from this ATM ... with printed  proof of purchase

With bank branches closing at an alarming rate, free-to-use cash machines are disappearing

Banksy-style street art in Glasgow, Scotland

East Village, New York City

Sweden's pixelated art by Johan Karlgren https://www.awesomeinventions.com/johan-karlgren-pixel-art-sweden/

Oil painting by Leon Keer

Sporting the most stickers. This time, in Los Angeles 

There are ATMs at the CIA's headquarters in Langley, Virginia ... but they are kept far from prying eyes

A marathon costume ... and he completed the race is less than 3 hours, 30 minutes !!!

https://bestracecostumes.wordpress.com/2015/11/09/atm/

With thanks to 

https://www.pinterest.co.uk/bellatminc/atm-art/

Spotted growing in Greenfield, Massachusetts in 2022 

(with thanks to Rick Bauer)

An ATM embedded in a slab of the Berlin Wall

Art by Elmgreen & Dragset

With contactless biometric motion sensors and a floating dynamic haptic holographic interface

Where digital, mobile and physical currencies meet

ATMs capable of accepting and recycling deposits is a game-changer for cash-based economies ... for over half the world's adult population, in other words 

UK 

Thailand

Scotland

Turkey

US

South Korea

The Netherlands

For night-time deposits ...

Dubai

The original 'Hole in the Wall' ATM

For use when behind bars, perhaps?

They have to be painted on walls in Eastern Ukraine because the Russians stole the real ones

(with thanks to Vladimir Sokolov)

With apologies to Dreamstime stock photos

With thanks to Pinterest

With thanks to Pinterest

Never too early to learn how to manage your cashflow

Also the 'cheapest'

One in every 415 residents of Bury St.Edmunds have been robbed near an ATM. This makes this sleepy English market town more dangerous than Moscow

https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/dangerous-cashpoints-uk/

The world's first talking ATM was installed in Ottowa, Canada in 1997. Nowadays, they use speech recognition and dynamic voice synthesis 

 ATMs were the first machines to provide the public with a haptic interface which conveys non audio-visual directions in Braille

ATMs are no more likely to spread Covid-19 and other communicable diseases than doorknobs and toilet seats

Nietzsche would be proud. Does money indeed make the Euro?

(With thanks to Guillaume Lepecq)

Shipping containers played a major part in the recovery of Christchurch as the city rebuilt after the 2011 earthquake

VW Campers are the coolest form of 'staycation' vehicle

 Muzz Buzz money machines in Australia donate a small percentage of each transaction fee to charity 

In Canada, ATMS are still sometimes referred to as 'Johnny's' by users who remember these TV ads from 1985 ... and Johnny Cash actually wrote a song for the campaign!

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7IjYs8U80E

Only possible in the drizzle of London ... 

Remember Nokia mobile phones?

Metaphoricaly speaking. Be warned ... paying for legalised cannabis is a regulatory minefield 

Not really an ATM ... but if it has the letters, it qualifies

(with thanks to Mike Lee)

J'adore la plus chic de Paris

Most ATMs are hardened against explosive attacks

Watch the video here

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/business/business-news/watch-cash-point-being-blown-10251025

This floral ATM smells of roses

(with thanks to UK Daily Mail)

Hunting treasure at a theme park in the US

For use in countries suffering from hyper-inflation

In the UK, a public toilet is sometimes called a 'public convenience'

On the way to the Glasgow-Dublin flight 

(with thanks to Katherine Fry)

With the advent of AI we have to ask ourselves if robots will ever need cash? If so, which 'biometric' will they use?

This ATM is next to F-Society's (fictional) headquarters in Coney Island, Brooklyn. You'll have to watch the TV series 'Mr Robot' to understand what this has to do with hacking

Even angels need cash sometimes

The world's first ATM to dispense Non-Fungible Tokens

https://www.atmmarketplace.com/news/non-fungible-token-vending-machine-debuts-in-nyc/

There can be no excuse for abolishing cash

ATMs have to convert multiple currencies at Geneva airport in Switzerland

Across the back of a trailer

An apologetic ATM

This ATM's 'leaderboard' displays wealthy users' bank balances for all to see (with thanks to CNN and MSCHF, Brooklyn)

Difficult to distinguish from all the urban graffiti in the West Village, New York City

Glue Fusion technology instantly sticks all the notes together if robbery is attempted, rendering them unusable

Most currency converted between Europe and the US (Gatwick Airport)

This ATM offered football fans travelling to Europe the opportunity to purchase Czech Koruna and Polish Zloty