Some people are taking the iconic red kiosks home as collector's items. But be warned: the energy costs are steep.

The DVD vending machine pioneer is out of business, sticking Walgreens, Walmart and other merchants with 24,000 abandoned big red machines

Jacob Helton, a 19-year-old from North Carolina, picked one up from a drugstore because he “felt like Redbox is important in the history of American media.” He went on to make the point that “its collapse marks the end of the video rental era.” Now he has a giant DVD-renting machine in his garage.