Abandoned Ships Stranded in the Desert ... Today, most of Mo’ynoq’s visitors come to view its haunting graveyard of ships, lying in the sands where the waters once flowed.

Satellite spots abandoned ships in the middle of the desert. By. Bradley Jolly; 11:47, 4 Sep 2018 Updated 11:51, 4 Sep 2018; ...

These boats, some of which are very old, include military ships that served in World War II, the Korean and Vietnam wars, and Desert Storm.

The shrinking of the Aral Sea has left the town of Mo'ynoq as a ghost town, populated by hulks of rusting ships that used to float on water, but now lie on sand.

Rusted ships litter the Aralkum desert - which used to be the Aral Sea (Image: Getty) Eerie pictures show an abandoned ship graveyard turned into a disease-ridden wasteland by Russia.