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Richmond, Virginia

The Triple Crossing

Where three rails and three centuries of transportation meet.
A rusty shipdeck sits submerged in the sand along a beach
Manzanillo, Costa Rica

Yicel Shipwreck

An intentionally grounded cargo ship remains half-buried in the sand.
Tokyo, Japan

Kimi-Chan

This sculpture bears a tragic backstory that may have inspired a hauntingly beautiful children's song.
Entrance to the dock museum
Barrow-in-Furness, England

Dock Museum

A modern museum built within a Victorian dry dock charts the history of the industrial town.
Scotland.
County Antrim, Northern Ireland

Torr Heads Ruins

Beautiful scenery provides the backdrop for an abandoned coastguard facility.
The <em>De Gallant</em> at sea.
ships

For Sustainable Coffee, These Ships Take to the High Seas

The old-fashioned way is also the carbon-neutral way.
Frankie Adkins May 12, 2022
The recreated <em>Götheborg</em> sailed into Stockholm as part of the celebration around Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling's wedding on June 19, 2010.
sailors

To Build an 18th-Century Ship, Shipwrights Had to Remaster a Lost Craft

It took a lot of careful planning to once again bend wood with giant steam boxes.
Sarah Durn November 9, 2021
Mykines Hólmur Lighthouse
Mykines, Faroe Islands

Mykines Hólmur Lighthouse

This isolated and westernmost point of the Faroe Islands archipelago is home to thousands of seabirds.
Winter view of Morris Canal from the north entrance to Liberty State Park
Jersey City, New Jersey

Morris Canal

Once considered a marvel of engineering, this 107-mile canal played an integral role in building New York City.
Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland

Carrickfergus Radar Tower

An abandoned shipping control tower looks like a satellite perched at the end of a pier.
Wharves and pilings of original shoreline.
Boston, Massachusetts

Original Wharf at Massachusetts General Hospital

Around 160 years ago, this spot marked the location of a wharf along the shores of the Charles River.
One of Carla Jenkins’s towboats, the “Bettye M. Jenkins,” sits at her dock in Vidalia, Louisiana on Oct. 6, 2019. Jenkins’s father, who built the boat, named it after Jenkins’s mother.
ships

The Triumphs and Tribulations of Towboats on the Mississippi River

“You ride the river and just hope you’re in the right spot when you need to be.”
Kerry Graning October 14, 2019
Native to equatorial Africa, kevazingo is also called <em>bubinga</em>, <em>bovenga</em>, <em>amazique</em>, and African rosewood.
forests

Gabon's Sacred Trees Are Becoming China's Upscale Furniture

Worshipped by indigenous groups, kevazingo are illegal to cut—but prized as a rosewood knockoff.
Oliver Whang September 13, 2019
Captain Sam Buchanan prepares to take a mail parcel on board for a delivery to a passing freighter as traffic backs up on the Ambassador Bridge that connects Detroit to Windsor, Canada.
ships

America's Only Floating Post Office Delivers More than Mail to Detroit's Ships

For 140 years, the J.W. Westcott Company has been dropping off everything from love letters to pizza to, once, a goat.
Liana Aghajanian July 19, 2016