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Whether it's a ghost town of a theme park, an abandoned place, or an actual ghost town, most of us can't resist the picturesque qualities of neglect. The most recent shipwreck discovery, explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship HMS Endurance off the coast of Antarctica, is amazingly well-preserved after 106 years — but is still plenty spooky. Here are some shipwreck images you might find hard to shake.
For 106 years, the wreck of Endurance, a three-masted, 144-foot wooden ship, was considered one of the most famous shipwrecks yet to be discovered — until now. Found in some seriously icy water 10,000 feet below the surface, the boat required an elaborate hunt
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with an icebreaker, undersea drones, and a team of adventurers, marine archaeologists and technicians that cost over $10 million.
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The Peter Iredale went aground in 1906 on its way to the Columbia River. The rusted skeleton of the four-masted steel ship can still be seen at Fort Stevens State Park near Astoria, Oregon.
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A remnant of the 1986 nuclear disaster, this barge is still half-sunken in the Pripyat River near the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
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A scuba diver takes a moment to explore this remarkable shipwreck at close range.
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The Milky Way gets an eerier look when juxtaposed with the wreckage of a ship.
Scuba divers get a close-up look at the rusted remains of a ship while exploring the Red Sea.
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The fishing boat FV Southwest Seas is little more than a few splintered boards, bleached and battered as it sits on the white sand of the nation's remote western coastline.
This shipwreck has been in the water long enough for most of the boards to be stripped to bare wood.
More than a few ship carcasses are dumped here in Tangalooma.
The bow of the USS Saratoga can be seen through the murky water. Only scuba divers with technical diving training can explore the wreck.
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This shipwreck is easy to examine in the crystal-clear waters of Barbados. A small boat cruises overhead to give it a closer look.
This ship would be an eyesore if it wasn't such a pretty picture at sunset.
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Wondering how the boat got there? During the summer the area is flooded.
This fishing vessel ran aground near this Scottish port, a disappointing end to a day at sea.
The S.S. Speke shipwreck seems almost otherworldly photographed against the rocky shore.
This abandoned boat took its sad story along with its battered hull to the bottom of the sea.
An old shipwreck sits in the lagoon in 2019. The world's fourth-smallest country has been battered by climate change, including a 5 millimeter-per-year sea level rise.
A Nigerian migrant stands in a "boat graveyard" containing battered ships, many of which were used for migrant crossings from Libya to Italy.
Crews try to salvage the Sewol Ferry. It sank in 2014, leaving more than 300 people dead.
Scuba divers take a closer look at the MS Zenobia shipwreck, which sank (some say under mysterious circumstances) on its maiden voyage in 1980.
An image of the Titanic is on display at the "Titanic the Artifact Exhibition" in China.
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