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Muurhuizen (Wall Houses)
52.1545, 5.3915
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Gold Beach, Oregon
The Wreck of the Mary D. Hume
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Brooklyn, New York
Yankee Ferry
A world of whimsy and wonder aboard a one of a kind historic landmark vessel.
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Join the Crew of NYC's Best-Kept Nautical Secret, Yankee Ferry
Stonington, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Museum
Holding multiple historical boats and an entire 19th century village, this New England attraction is the largest maritime museum in the world.
Permanently Closed
Port Costa, California
The Burlington Hotel
A historic hotel in an old California railroad town with a rowdy reputation.
Permanently Closed
Inverness, Scotland
Ship Space
The Titanic sails again in one Scotland man's backyard.
Folly Beach, South Carolina
Folly Boat
Twenty-eight years after this local landmark was washed ashore by hurricane Hugo, it was washed away by hurricane Irma.
Key Largo, Florida
The African Queen
The famous boat that once ferried Bogart and Hepburn still floats in Key Largo after being abandoned for years.
Geneva, Illinois
The Viking
A replica viking ship from the Chicago World's Fair is still in dry dock in an Illinois park.
Havana, Cuba
Finca VigĂa
The house that birthed The Old Man and The Sea is now a museum devoted to the old man who wrote it.
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Super Fun Superfund: Canoeing on the Gowanus Canal
Dawson City, Yukon
Paddlewheel Graveyard
A skeletal collection of former nautical mainstays.
Permanently Closed
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
SS United States
The fastest transatlantic ocean liner sat abandoned in a Philadelphia shipyard for decades.
Brooklyn, New York
Brooklyn Cruise Terminal in Red Hook
A cruise terminal that changes the atmosphere of Red Hook's industrial waterfront.
Strausberg, Germany
Straussee Ferry
A unique, free-floating electric ferry may be the only of its kind in Europe.
Le Roeulx, Belgium
Strépy-Thieu Boat Lift
The world's tallest boat lift stands as a massive piece of industrial tourism.
Permanently Closed
St. Louis, Missouri
USS Inaugural (1993-2013)
A floating museum that was sunk by a flood and left to rot in the tides.
Nemi, Italy
Nemi Ships
Caligula's colossal pleasure ships, discovered by Mussolini only to be lost in flames.
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