All that remains of the fishing-vessel-turned-warship is its weathered hull.

Far from the shore, this sandy victim of the Skeleton Coast looks like it was plopped in the middle of the desert.

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

This remarkably intact, 260-year-old cargo ship is only visible at the lowest of spring tides.

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

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

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

The rusty hull of this 1899 ship serves as a tribute to explorers of the bottom of the world.

Inside this museum is an ongoing excavation of an ancient shipwreck.

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

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

The remains of the wrecked steam trawler can be found on the beach at low tide.

A fiery crater has been burning in the Karakum Desert since 1971.

A precariously balanced rock perches on the edge of a cliff created tens of thousands of years ago by glacial erosion.

A tiny red pebble marks what may be the quietest outdoor spot in the United States.

This rare example of a "tidefall" is a spectacular drop from the cliffs down onto the beach.

The only natural lake in the world that drains into both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.

Watch the newest land on the planet form before your eyes.

This Yellowstone geyser may not shoot as high as the nearby Old Faithful, but it erupts for considerably longer.

Under the right circumstances, this waterfall in Yosemite briefly turns a luminescent fiery orange.

One day a year it is legal to jump off of this astoundingly tall bridge that spans an Appalachian gorge.

An abandoned monastery sits on a far-off island in the Adriatic Sea.