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== Anime and Manga ==
* Ape's Concert in the Rainbow Mist [[Filler]] [[Arc]] of ''[[
* The Autobots encounter one in the ''[[Transformers Headmasters]]'' episode "Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship".
* The "shoal zones" in ''Mobile Suit Gundam'' and its sequels are debris fields of wrecked space colonies, spaceships, mobile suits, etc.
* The episode "Magnetic Rose" of ''[[Memories]]'' takes place in one.
* The debris belt from ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' qualifies. Arguably, the L4 colony cluster does too.
* The Dark Witch, the villain of the first ''[[Futari wa Pretty Cure
== Comic Books ==
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* ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]'': In the first film they have to pass over a ship graveyard to get to the island, and in the third the meeting of the Pirate Lords takes place at Shipwreck cove.
** Specifically, the meeting was in the town of Shipwreck, which was within Shipwreck Cove, on Shipwreck Isle.
* ''[[Transformers (
** It's actually the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.
* The film ''[[Real Steel]]'' features one. Charlie and Max break into a robot junkyard to find parts to build a new robot boxer. After a near-death experience, Max discovers the film's robot protagonist, Atom, buried in the mud.
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* In the [[Backstory]] of [[David Brin]]'s ''Startide Rising'', a Terran starship discovers a fleet of derelict [[Precursors|Progenitor]] ships and unleashes a galaxies-wide holy war.
* Old [[World War One]] transports that were left abandoned form the production headquarters for one group of drug dealers, in [[Tom Clancy]]'s ''Without Remorse'', a [[Prequel]] in the [[
** "Bronco", in ''Clear and Present Danger'', speculates that the [http://www.amarcexperience.com/AMARCDescription.asp Boneyard] in Arizona is where the a captured druggie DC-7B will eventually be dumped, given that one more old aircraft in storage there won't be particularly noteworthy.
* The [[Redwall]] book ''The Bellmaker'' has a [[Derelict Graveyard]] of old wooden ships, which the heroes cannibalize for parts.
* The Nartec city in'' [[
* [[Andre Norton]]'s novels contain several:
** ''Forerunner'': the desert north of Kuxortal holds a field of Forerunner spacecraft contaminated with radiation.
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* In the ''Dream Park'' South Seas Treasure Game, some important items are found amid a collection of abandoned ships and planes, which the villainous {{spoiler|Fore sorcerors}} had summoned to New Guinea with their [[Cargo Cult]] magic.
* Star Trek's ''Dominion War'' series placed one of these in the Badlands.
* In the ''[[Star Trek:
** The previous novel, ''Chain of Attack'', actually outclasses it, though--the derelicts there include lifeless ''planets'' throughout a huge sector of space.
* In the ''[[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]]'' series, we've got the Sargasso Sector, named for the Sargasso Sea on Earth. It's a junkyard of abandoned ships floating around a collection of black holes and quasars. The protagonists are assigned to clear a path through it to allow a convoy access - one of the series' more notable cases of [[Space Is an Ocean]].
** Finally, to show how much ''[[
* ''[[
* [[The Diving Universe]] novel ''Boneyards'' has the Boneyard, a massive derelict graveyard full of ancient spaceships.
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== Live Action TV ==
* in one episode of ''[[Space Cases]]'', the Christa comes across a graveyard of ships that had all their energy sapped by an entity that inhabits the region. The ship picks up echoing transmissions that confirm the entity has been at work for more than 100 years. the Christa narrowly avoids joining them.
* In ''[[Star Trek:
* ''[[Andromeda]]'' had a graveyard full of abandoned High Guard ships, captured by the Nietzscheans after the war and left to sit there for 3 centuries until they could figure out how to deal with the [[A Is]] defending them. There were also a couple of episodes where they came across single abandoned ships from the same time, generally presumed to be haunted wrecks (including the Andromeda itself in the pilot).
* The ''[[
* The ''[[Babylon
* The old, derelict graveyard where ghosts went to recharge in ''[[The Ghost Busters]]''.
* Moonbase Alpha passes through one of these in an episode of ''[[Space: 1999]]''; it is infested with an [[Eldritch Abomination]].
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* An entire level of ''[[Gradius|Gradius Gaiden]]'' is made entirely of huge wrecked ships... all of which [[Continuity Nod|were once bosses in previous games!]]
* The ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' games have a few:
** The Ship Graveyard in ''[[
** A ''train'' graveyard in ''[[
** Arrapago Reef in ''[[
** ''[[
** In ''[[
* In ''[[Star Trek: Voyager
** {{spoiler|Actually, pretty much the entire game takes place in one.}}
* The ''[[
* One of the first levels of ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' takes place in a ship graveyard in the middle of a Louisiana bayou.
* Several levels in ''[[
* In ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'', the planet Rakata becomes a ship graveyard due to an ancient jamming field installed there to keep wandering ships away from [[The Very Definitely Final Dungeon|the Star Forge]].
** It also has Malachor Five in the second game, which is surrounded by the wrecks of Republic and Mandalorian warships after the Exile activated Revan's ace in the hole.
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** Also a mostly intact Star Destroyer. Star Wars loves this type of planet.
* ''[[Total Annihilation]]'' has "Dump", a moon around the Core homeworld which has accumulated four thousand years of garbage. Said garbage is the remains of Core war units and is the only source of metal in that mission. Any battlefield will resemble this given enough time. Those wrecks really do pile up.
** ''[[
* Haunted Ship in ''[[
** Along with Pirate Storm (though some of the ships are functional) in ''[[Sonic and The Secret Rings]]''. Overlap with [[Gang Plank Galleon]].
* Lost Fleet in ''[[Spyro the Dragon|Spyro 3]]'' is filled with sunken ships, but mostly landlocked...
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* Arguably the first three worlds of ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 2''. First there's a ship that's in mint condition except for a hole torn into the hull, then there's a ship that's been torn in half and is sitting in the middle of a swamp. And then there's the half-submerged ship in ''lava''...
** Gloomy Galleon from ''[[Donkey Kong 64]]'' also had a large number of wrecked ships.
* You can discover one of these in ''[[
** There is also an entire region you can explore named the Dark Rift, (''Sargasso'' in the original Japanese release) which is probably a [[Shout-Out]] to the Bermuda Triangle and Sargasso Sea. The area is littered with scores of ruined ships, many you can loot, and one with a {{spoiler|survivor you can recruit}}.
* ''[[Endless Ocean]]'' features one of these for its final bonus area. You can pet baby great white sharks there!
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* Level 5 of ''[[R-Type]] Delta'' is an interdimensional derelict graveyard, containing random scrap and enemies from the first R-Type. While most of the derelict ships can't manouver anymore, they do have operational weapon systems.
* There was a 'starship graveyard' in ''Lylat Wars'' on the N64.
** The Black Hole in the original ''[[Star Fox (
* The 'main' quest of ''Age of Pirates 2: City of Abandoned Ships'' involves traveling to the eponymous conglomeration of derelict ships fastened together, forming a floating town. {{spoiler|Well not really.}}
* Sir Raleigh's level "Gunboat Graveyard" in the first ''[[Sly Cooper]]'' game, with the graveyard being deliberately created by Raleigh himself.
* The Spaceship Graveyard in ''[[Ratchet and Clank|Secret Agent Clank.]]''
* The Ship Graveyard level in ''[[Hydro Thunder]]''.
* The Keyblade Graveyard in ''[[
** [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Port Royal]] in ''[[
* ''[[Far Cry]] 2'' has the Train variety in multiple areas, and a multiplayer map. Also Saharan Shipwrecks of a sort if you follow the tracks into the desert.
* The far side of the {{spoiler|Omega-4 Relay}} in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' is littered with broken and derelict ships {{spoiler|lacking the IFF transponder that tells the relay to send a ship through safely instead of shooting it. ''If'' you can get past the black hole flanking its exit point.}}
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* ''[[Prehistoric Isle|Prehistoric Isle in 1930]]'' features this in the second part of the underwater level, showing all the ships that have gone missing in the Bermuda Triangle.
* Seventh story mission in ''[[Jaws Unleashed]]'' has you chasing some divers into a lagoon filled with partially and completely sunken ships.
* ''[[Starfleet Adventures]]'', a ''[[Star Trek:
* In the ''[[X Universe]]'', the sector President's End has about a dozen burned out capital ships and space stations floating around, leftovers from a Kha'ak attack.
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== Western Animation ==
* The ''[[Star Trek:
* In ''[[Atlantis:
* At the end of ''[[
** Earlier in the film, Ariel and Flounder can be seen collecting artifacts from a sunken ship inhabited by Glut the shark.
* The "Other Railway" from ''[[Thomas the Tank Engine]]'', which is for some reason full of [[Nightmare Fuel|rusted and decaying steam locomotive parts.]]
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