London, England
Battersea Power Station
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
Places I want to go
Places on this traveler's wishlist.
London, England
Pop culture has helped to keep this iconic British building from being destroyed.
London, England
The secret wartime bunker built on the platforms of an abandoned Tube station.
London, England
An abandoned tank sits in an empty London lot as a symbolic middle finger to local city planners.
Black Rock, Australia
Australia's only intact colonial warship never saw action before being turned into a scenic wreck.
Wentworth Point, Australia
Nature is leading a successful mutiny on this century-old freighter.
Fraser Island, Australia
WWI hospital ship lost in a cyclone turns up on the coast of Fraser Island, where she remains rusted and forgotten.
Garden Island, Australia
The sullen remains of vessels abandoned in the Port Adelaide River.
Punta Arenas, Chile
The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.
Micronesia
Tropical paradise strewn with hundreds of World War II wrecks.
A remote coral island with a gristly history of shipwreck, battles, and a horrendous war crime.
Suiderstrand, South Africa
All that remains of a Japanese fishing vessel that ran aground in 1982.
Cape Town, South Africa
The haunting beauty of this little-visited wreck makes it a true hidden treasure.
Yangjiang, China
Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.
Castroville, California
An abandoned boat that's been stranded mysteriously for decades.
Inverness, California
This abandoned boat was left in place thanks to its rotting beauty.
Beira, Mozambique
This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.
Crockett, California
The remains of a deserted steamboat sit rusting beside an old ferry pier and an abandoned train platform.
Balboa District, Panama
The rusting hulk of a hand-powered, nearly 160-year-old submarine abandoned in 1869 due to the ravages of decompression sickness.
Namibia
Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.
Gold Beach, Oregon
This historic steamboat is scuttled just a few hundred feet from where it was built over a hundred years ago.
Roche Caiman, Seychelles
A schooner, nicknamed "The Unsinkable," with a long history of survival in the Indian Ocean.
Galveston, Texas
A decaying concrete oil tanker served as a disposal location for bootleg hootch.
Pachena Beach, British Columbia
The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."
Cayman Brac, Cayman Islands
The decaying remains of a ship whose captain mysteriously disappeared.