Shipwrecks

The rusting hulk of a 250-foot-long merchant vessel remains where she grounded on the shore of Hudson Bay.

This historic Erasmus statue was first mistaken for a legendary Chinese inventor, then as a child-eating hag.

Two whaling vessels that were sunk by an anti-whaling organization in 1986 now sit on the shore of this beautiful fjord.

This antique shop offers affordable 15th-century Vietnamese ceramics salvaged from a local shipwreck.

On a secluded beach is one of the few shipwrecks left on the shores of Mauritania.

The third-tallest lighthouse in the United States stands as a reminder of Atlantic City's early days.

The last vestiges of this ship are mostly buried beneath the sand dunes.

After a long career, a disastrous sinking, and a half-successful salvage, this Naval vessel-turned-artificial reef ended up exactly where she was supposed to—with a little help from nature.

Six miles off the coast of Key West, a former military transport ship is now one of the largest artificial reefs in the world.

After several weeks of radio silence, this abandoned oil tanker washed up on a remote beach in Liberia.