Ships

The rusted remains of an ill-fated freighter lie just off the coast of South Manitou Island in Lake Michigan.

Old ships and machinery fill a historic harbor in the city that's home to Europe's largest port.

A museum dedicated to Nantucket's legacy as the "graveyard of the Atlantic."

The patron of this extravagant Art Nouveau confection insisted that nothing less than a boat should project from its facade.

Divers can encounter an abandoned warship encircled by a giant kraken submerged in the British Virgin Islands.

All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.

Hidden beneath the waters of Lake Michigan rests a perfectly intact ship from the early 1900s.

A quaint museum nestled in a former hub of Irish moss harvesting.

A section of the long chain that blocked enemy ships from entering Constantinople.

The forgotten remains of the first steamship that launched on Lake Tanganyika.

A display of hand-built replicas of the legendary vessels used by Patagonian and Antarctic explorers.

This restaurant was removed from the famed sister ship of the Titanic and placed within a hotel.

The study has wall paneling from a 17th century ship.

Ancient stone graves shaped like ships provided a Viking-like burial to carry the dead to the afterlife.

In Zanzibar, a historic 19th-century palace is a reminder of the world's shortest war.