26 famous shipwrecks around the world that you can actually visit

But there are countless other shipwrecks beneath the ocean and stranded on land around the world.

Here's what 26 different sunken ships look like — and how they got there.

The world's oldest intact shipwreck was discovered in the Black Sea 50 miles off the coast of Bulgaria.

The 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Baron Gautsch, an Austro-Hungarian steamboat that sank in the northern Croatian Adriatic sea, was marked on August 13, 2014.

The ship, originally used to service passenger lines, had been leased by the Austro-Hungarian army following the July 1914 outbreak of World War I to transport troops, only to run into a minefield off the Brijuni islands less than a month later. Estimates say between 240 and 390 people perished in the sinking, making it one of the biggest losses of life in World War I.

Today, the shipwreck lies at a depth of 131 feet (40 meters) off the coast of Rovinj and is said to be the most popular site for divers in the Adriatic.

The SS Maheno went from ocean liner to hospital ship to a rusty wreck on Fraser Island, Australia.

The skeletal remains of an unknown French sailor sit in the hull of the wreck of French explorer La Salle's The Belle ship in the Gulf of Mexico.

Discovered on Halloween in 1996, the remains of The Belle had been underwater for 310 years before being discovered by marine archaeologists. The ship lies 15 miles offshore, 125 miles southwest of Houston. A cofferdam allowed archaeologists to expose the sea floor for research.

The Belle was one of four ships belonging to the French explorer La Salle, according to Texas A&M Today. It carried 300 settlers who were supposed to colonize the Gulf Coast area, but incorrect maps led the ships hundreds of miles astray to the coast of Texas. The Belle was abandoned in

The Centaur was an Australian hospital ship sunk by a Japanese torpedo in 1943.

The Centaur had been clearly marked as a hospital ship with red crosses, but the Japanese struck it without warning during WWII, according to the Australian War Memorial. Only 64 out of 332 passengers, including crew members and nursing staff, survived after spending 35 hours on rafts waiting to be rescued.

The wreck was discovered in 2009 by a team led by

The Panagiotis ran aground on the Greek island of Zakynthos in 1980.

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The Titanic sank in 1912 after colliding with an iceberg, but the wreck wasn't discovered until 1985.

deemedone of the most luxurious and safe ships ever built — hit anicebergand sank off the coast of Newfoundland, taking more than 1,500 lives.

The ship, the world's largest at the time, was on its maiden voyage, headed from Southampton, England, to New York City.

Gribshunden, a 15th century ship from Denmark, is probably the world's best preserved late medieval ship.

Gribshunden, a contemporary of Columbus' Santa Maria, caught fire and sank off the coast of Ronneby in Southern Sweden sometime after 1495. It belonged to King John of Denmark, who sent it as part of a mission to unify

The 100-foot long shipwreck featured a 660-pound wooden figurehead of a sea monster, that was thought to ward off evil spirits, The Daily Mail reports.

How exactly the ship Dimitrios ended up wrecked on Valtaki Beach in Greece is still a mystery.

By some accounts, the ship was being used to smuggle cigarettes between Turkey and Italy and was set on fire to conceal the evidence. But it could have just been abandoned at a port in

Erebus, one of two ships from the lost Franklin Expedition in the 1840s, was discovered in Canada in 2014.

Sir John Franklin, an English Royal Navy officer, led two ships named Erebus and Terror on the Franklin Expedition in the 1840s, according to National Geographic. He and his crew were searching for the Northwest Passage, the route from the Pacific Ocean to the Arctic Ocean.

The ships disappeared in 1848 and remained lost until 2014, when a Canadian mission located Erebus. A note was found saying that Franklin died before the ships were abandoned.

The SMS Coln was a light cruiser that launched in 1916. Its armored control tower and gun mounts are still visible, distinguishing it as a war ship.

The German war ship SMS Coln, named for the German town of Cologne, didn't actually participate in any battles. It was one of many ships intentionally sunk at Scapa Flow after World War I to prevent the British from seizing them.

The wreck is now a protected monument and a popular destination for divers because it's relatively intact and easy to navigate.

The Eduard Bohlen ran aground in Namibia in 1909.

The Eduard Bohlen, a 310-foot German cargo ship that ran aground while en route to Table Bay in , is famous because it appears to have just popped up in the middle of the desert. It may have been close to the shore when it first washed up in 1909, but it now sits 1,000 feet from the water.

The ship Tabarka was deliberately sunk during WWII to try and block the path of German U-Boats.

Tabarka was a French cargo ship that weighed 2,624 tons. It was built in 1909 and was intentionally sunk twice as a blockship during World War II — first in 1941 in Kirk Sound, then again in 1944 in Burrra Sound after being raised.

The Satil Wreck in Eilat, Israel, is a popular destination for high-fashion photo shoots.

A rotting boat in Inverness, California, has become a beloved landmark.

The Point Reyes shipwreck in Inverness, California, was going to be removed when a wetlands restoration firm acquired the land (the previous owner brought the boat ashore intended to fix it up, but never got around to it). But local photographers and visitors pushed for it to remain. There's now parking, signage, and a trail leading to the boat.

Holes are still visible in the wreckage of Russian destroyer Moskva, which sank in the Black Sea in 1941 in a battle along the Romanian coast.

Marine archaeologists in the Hawaiian islands found a blubber hook from the 19th-century shipwrecked whaling ship Two Brothers.

Whaling ship Two Brothers set sail from Nantucket in 1821. Its captain, George Pollard, had lost an earlier boat named Essex in a disaster that inspired the Herman Melville classic "Moby-Dick." He lost Two Brothers as well when a storm forced him and his crew to abandon ship. The vessel was discovered 600 miles from Honolulu in 2010, along with whaling tools such as harpoon tips.

Jacques Cousteau discovered British transport ship the Thistlegorm, which lies at the bottom of the Red Sea in Egypt.

The wrecked Italian cargo ship Probitas was discovered by a research vessel in Albania.

This wreck was found near Giron, Cuba, a landing site during the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961.

Archaeologists dated this bust found off the coast of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea back to a shipwreck from the third century.

The US sank more than 50 Japanese ships in Chuuk Lagoon, Micronesia, during World War II.

Marine life sprouts at the site of a 4th century shipwreck off the coast of Albania.

Off the shores of Albania lies a wealth of shipwrecked treasures — ancient amphorae that carried olive oil and wine, wrecks with hidden tales of heroism and treachery from two world wars, spectacular rock formations, and marine life.

Indonesia has a graveyard of nearly 500 ships from Asia, Europe, and the Middle East in the Java Sea.

The Battle of the Java Sea in World War II left a graveyard of ships off the coast of Indonesia (like the above 17th century Dutch East India Company shipwreck), as well as the remains of

The decommissioned Navy landing ship Spiegel Grove was scuttled, or intentionally sunk, in Florida in 2002.

Since it was on June 10, 2002, Spiegel Grove rested on its starboard side. But in 2005, divers discovered the ship had rolled upright, likely due to waves produced by Hurricane Dennis off the southeast coast of Cuba, according to a National Weather Service official.

At one point, it held the record for the largest ship in the world ever scuttled to become an artificial reef.

Ancient Korean porcelain from a shipwreck is seen in this photo released by the National Maritime Museum in Mokpo, South Korea.

An octopus clutching a plate led researchers to a 12th century wreck containing over 2,500 pieces of well-preserved ancient Korean porcelain.

The National Maritime Museum's collection includes hundreds of cups, bowls, plates and other pieces that curators say were for the noble class and government officials in the Goryeo Dynasty, which ruled from 918-1392.

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26 famous shipwrecks around the world that you can actually visit

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