"People were commuting to work across the bridge above, but down below, there was nothing but gulls and Amur and the tingle of ice."

I am one of those commuters: I ride by this ship on the opposite riverbank every day back and forth to work. One day my eyes even lingered on for a while on the for sale sign, wondering who would want to buy a rusty old passenger riverboat like this.

Image credit: Jalopnik / Peter Orosz