Top 10 Amazing Abandoned Vehicles Discovered

From aircraft to failed cruise ships here are 10 amazing abandoned vehicles with cool stories.

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10. 1947 Buick Hearse
When photos of a strange, customized Buick hearse surfaced online in 2014, the Internet was immediately set abuzz. Complete with an ornate casket-holding cargo section, broad windows and golden angel details, it was a far cry from the original design.

9. Canada’s Space Shuttle Replica
In a small theme park on Prince Edward Island, Canada, a full-scale replica of the space shuttle Columbia sits in the middle of an abandoned field. Once part of the theme park known as Science Fun, the shuttle replica was one of only six replicas in the world with access for the general public to walk through and investigate.

8. Ekranoplan
During the Cold War, as the United States and the Soviet Union worked against one another to build bigger, better weaponry, a Russian built flying boat known as the Orlyonok, became an entirely new class of vehicles known as Ekranopans.

7. Concrete Ship Gu Tian
Known as the world’s largest concrete ship, the Gu Tian, a 3000-ton ship that made it’s first voyage in 1974, was built at a time when there was a steel shortage in China.

6. The ShamRockAway Motorhome
It’s not every day that you spot a motorhome built from not one but four cars. Such is the case of the ShamRockAway, a strange, stacked custom motorhome built from four 1962 Buick station wagons.

5. MAZ 543 Redout
As the Cold War gained momentum, the Soviet military needed a mobile, fortified site for defensive weapons. In an attempt to create a vehicle that was both easy to move and quick to relocate, the USSR developed a protected machine on a truck chassis that was fortified and mobile.

4. The Spruce Goose
During World War II, the United States looked for ways to ship supplies and troops overseas to Allied Britain. But with ocean travel a grim proposition with the threat of German U-boats lurking beneath the waves, the U.S. Navy had to develop something more safe to deliver the payload they needed to make the trip worthwhile.

3. Abandoned Hovercraft
A district in Mumbai, India might seem like the most unlikely of places to find an abandoned Hovercraft. So, how about two? Sitting in a derelict port, the abandoned Hovercraft carcasses of the Triton I and the Triton II are remnants of a British-built vessel that never really seemed to get off the ground.

2. Abandoned Ukraine Excavators
Up until nine years ago, the Morozov opencast mine was one of the most active mines in the Ukraine. Now, hundreds of coal trucks, once loaded every hour by huge excavators, stand abandoned and rusting.

1. SS Aquarama
Built in 1945 as a troop transport ship for the Navy during World War II, the SS Aquarama, originally named the SS Marine Star, made only one trip across the Atlantic before combat ended. The ship was purchased in 1952 by a Detroit industrialist who spent the $8 million converting it into a cruise ferry ship.