Shipwrecks

The third version of this tall sailing ship sits, rusted and burnt, in Lake Ontario.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

This steamship has been beautifully rusting off the coast of an Iranian island since the 1960s.

This lighthouse and shipwreck museum keep a torch burning for the memory of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.

This huge ship ran aground and has simply been left to sit there ever since.

No one is sure what to do with this WWII shipwreck that sits at the bottom of the Thames, still loaded with tons of explosives.

This haunting ghost ship stands beached in the waters off the coast of the Falkland Islands.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.

This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.

This island hill is strewn with boulders carved by shipwreck victims from the age of sail.