Shutterstock The closest water is almost 100 miles from here.In Uzbekistan, an eerie ship graveyard filled with hauntingly beautiful shipwrecks 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 Sea - once one of the four largest lakes in the world - but today, nothing but desert remains.
Let's take a closer look and see how these ships came to be stranded in the middle of the desert.