Ships

A place for ship-lovers to watch the passage of freighters traversing the Great Lakes while learning about their history.

The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.

An abandoned giant glass dome sits in the bay in “the Venice of the East.”

The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.

A memorial to an ill-fated Holy Land mission once described by Mark Twain as “a complete fiasco.”

The London pub overlooks where the Mayflower was moored before setting sail for the New World.

A historic custom house with ties to George Washington is now a shrine to local nautical history.

This replica of an 8th century burial ship actually sailed to Norway before returning home to Minnesota.

An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.

A forest of immensely tall and unusually straight oak trees planted nearly 200 years ago to build naval ships that never came to be.

Chicago's Navy Pier on Lake Michigan was a training hub for aircraft carrier pilots during WWII.

A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.

An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.

Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.