Ship Graveyards

An uninhabited island in a New Zealand harbor with dozens of scuttled vessels.

The largest recovered section of Titanic sits in a hotel in Las Vegas.

A boat slowly sinking into the Essex mud flats bearing the names of the disappeared that haunt the Thames Estuary.

Around 30 ship figureheads are housed at this 11th-century abbey and gardens.

Two whaling vessels that were sunk by an anti-whaling organization in 1986 now sit on the shore of this beautiful fjord.

On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.

For decades, these ships have been lying in rust awaiting a final decision on their fate.

The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

Abandoned boats decaying in the largest ship graveyard in mainland Britain.

The deserted pirate-themed restaurant still entices explorers.

Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.

Ship skeletons haunt Baltimore's waterways.

The site of the most dived wreck in the UK.

This concrete ship has had four careers - World War I tanker, floating amusement park, fishing pier, and artificial reef.