Incredible photos of an eerie ship graveyard in the middle of the Uzbekistan desert

The INSIDER Summary: The Moynaq Ship Graveyard is literally a ghost town in the middle of the desert.It was once home to abusy fishing port as well asone the four largest lakes in the world.The lakebegan to shrink when Soviet irrigation projects diverted the riversthat fed it. While this could be reversed, Uzbekistan doesn't have the funds to do so.In Uzbekistan, an eerie ship graveyard filled with hauntinglybeautifulshipwrecks beckons. The Moynaq Ship Graveyard is literally a ghost town in the middle of the desert. It was once a busy Soviet fishing port on the Aral Seaone of the four largest lakes in the world back in the daybut today, nothing but desert remains.Let's take a closerlook and see how these ships came to be stranded in the middle of the desert.Once one of the four largest lakes in the world (it was 26,300 square miles), the Aral Sea dried up when the rivers feeding it were diverted for irrigation purposes.Aral Sea translates to "Sea of Islands," named for the over 1,100 islands it was once home to. Today, dozens of ships are disintegrating in the scorching desert heat.Today, the nearest shore is almost 100 miles away.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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