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This protected area in Lake Huron contains some of the world’s best-preserved shipwrecks.

A small museum houses a long, rich history of life and death on Lake Erie — from famous shipwrecks to rum smugglers.

The rusting remains are visible sticking out of the waters of the Delaware Bay.

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

Final resting place of two dozen New York City harbor ships.

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

A freighter full of exotic animals ends a harrowing voyage impaled on uncharted rocks in the Boston Harbor.

The steel hull of a wrecked tug rests on Lobster Cove on Monhegan Island’s rocky southeastern shore.

This memorial to a horrific ship collision sits over a mass grave holding dozens of the victims.

This ship carrying cargo and four church bells for the Catedral Metropolitana Nossa Senhora Aparecida ran aground in 1968.

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

The world's largest ship graveyard is the product of decades of corruption.

A shipwreck named Desire at the shore of Batumi.

The water here is so clear you can see the mysteriously sunken ship from the surface.

One of the most popular attractions in the small resort town of Kabardinka.

This wrecked ghost ship has been rusting on a Greek beach since the 1980s.

Hidden in a secluded Greek cove is a pristine beach marred only by the rusting smuggler's hulk stranded on its shores.

The rusted hull of a WWII German destroyer pokes above the surface in a Norwegian fjord.

It houses the remains of a 17th-century version of the Titanic.

The remains of a sunken military ship wreck visible through clear water.

A plaque on this tiny Swedish island commemorates an unusual Cold War standoff of Soviet submarine intrigue.

The plunge pool is a surviving relic of a rowdy royal residence.

A haunting collection of sunken wooden barges litters this Italian river bend.

Remnants of an exploded schooner and wrecked submarines form a breakwater.