Oslo, Norway
Viking Ship Museum
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
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Oslo, Norway
Home to three historic ships from the age of Vikings.
Fraserburgh, Scotland
An 18th-century lighthouse built on a 16th-century castle is now a monument to the maritime beacons of Scotland.
San Francisco, California
A 300-ship graveyard, with a few still visible at low tide.
Gillingham, England
The "Heroine of Dunkirk" rescued over 7,000 Allied troops during the historic World War II evacuation.
Panama City Beach, Florida
A graveyard of bathyspheres and diving bells paints a weirdly accurate account of ocean exploration's rickety history.
Key West, Florida
The museum chronicling a treasure hunter's dream, fulfilled.
Florida
This 140-year-old beacon off the Florida Keys marks the wreck of a Navy ship that once roamed the Caribbean hunting pirates.
Willemstad, Curaçao
Shipwrecks, ruins, and turtles are all that remain on this haunting Caribbean ghost island.
Turks and Caicos Islands
The rusted remains of a victim of Hurricane Ike.
Jekyll Island, Georgia
Constant erosion has created a surreal landscape of bleached and preserved fallen trees.
Hunstanton, England
All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.
Whitby, England
The remains of the concrete ship can be seen during low tide.
Cartagena, Spain
An impressive display of ships and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean maritime trade.
Kansas City, Missouri
Two hundred tons of pioneer artifacts were painstakingly recovered from a shipwreck at the bottom of the Missouri River.
Lewes, Delaware
A wrecked ship dating back to the American Revolution was only recently discovered off the Delaware coast.
Palos Verdes Estates, California
Remains of a Greek freighter trapped off of Rocky Point in 1961.
Falmouth, Jamaica
Millions of glowing microscopic organisms light up the waters of this luminous lagoon.
Ithaca, New York
These expertly crafted, scientifically accurate glass sea creatures were once an international phenomenon.
Forks, Washington
One man's eclectic collection of treasures found at sea.
Quincy, Massachusetts
Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.
Fort Bragg, California
A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.
Sandefjord, Norway
Europe's only museum solely dedicated to the history of whaling still has a fully-functioning whaling ship.
Istanbul, Turkey
Turkish adventurer antiques in the heart of the Grand Bazaar.
Santa Luzia, Portugal
Dead weights honor the dead of Portugal's fishing industry.