What You Need to Know: The USS Texas (BB-35), a storied battleship that served in both World Wars, faces an uncertain future. Despite a recent $60 million overhaul, it has no permanent home.

Coming in number five on the 10Best List was USS North Carolina (BB-55), the U.S. Navy’s first of 10 “fast battleships.” Decommissioned in 1947, the warship was saved from scrappers in 1960 ...