Beaches

Beautiful Gothic-inspired lighthouse stands out among the run-of-the-mill striped fare on Bodies Island.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

First a horse rendering plant, then a 19th century landfill, this beach is full of glass from thousands upon thousands of broken bottles.

The oldest steel ship in Iceland has been beached for years and is now a rusting ruin.

One of the only known surviving coconut palm trees in the entire state.

This black shoreline is made up of exploded lava particles.

White beach sands made of the remains of tiny, star shaped creatures.

A secret, rocky playground hidden amongst the plain white beaches of the Florida coast.

Eccentric stone cairns built on a public New York City beach.

A small island with no monkeys but plenty of military ruins.

This pebble beach is so beautiful that taking its rocks is against the law.

Trash escaped from a landfill to fill beaches with all kinds of treasure.

On top of a resort town as old as the Bronze Age sits an incredible war memorial statue overlooking the beaches below.

A unique beach made of a myriad of multi-sized pebbles.

The once abandoned ruins of a Victorian beachside amusement park are now back in working order.

Low tide reveals 8,000-year-old rock carvings in Southern Alaska.

Handcrafted thermal spa washes away each night with the tide.

Commercial airplanes land mere feet over the heads of sunbathing beachgoers on this tiny island.