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Beaches

Plane landing, Barra Airport.

Isle of Barra, Scotland

Barra Airport

This beach runway is off limits during high tide.

(Flickr/Ethelred the Unusual)

Charmouth, England

Charmouth Beach

Cliffs full of fossils at the portal to England's Jurassic Coast.

Naalehu, Hawaii

Papakōlea Beach

A beach made of semi-precious green sand on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi.

(Flickr/goldlionpics)

Olympos Coastal National Park (Çıralı)

Roman ruins, natural methane fires and a lovely beach.

Famagusta, Cyprus

Varosha Beach Resort

A 1970s resort city now stands abandoned, caught in the middle of a divided island.

Fort Bragg, California

Glass Beach

A trash dump made beautiful by nature's power.

Permanently Closed

A few shade trees along Geiger Key Beach

Boca Chica, Florida

Geiger Key Abandoned Beach

A nude beach alongside a washed-out road.

Reynisdrangar

Three columns of volcanic rock shoot out of the ocean.

Haystack Rock

Cannon Beach, Oregon

Haystack Rock

A massive sea stack famous for its appearance in The Goonies.

Bunker at Cape May Point. (Andriy Boychuk)

Cape May, New Jersey

Bunker At Cape May Point

World War II bunker still standing on the New Jersey beach.

Bombay Beach, California. (Wikimedia Commons)

Bombay Beach, California

Bombay Beach

Version of the French Riviera destroyed by the sea.

Collage of the tunnel at Tunnel Beach, Dunedin, New Zealand, showing the beginning, a look backwards up the tunnel, and a view of the beach at the end of the tunnel. (Wikimedia Commons)

Dunedin, New Zealand

Tunnel Beach

Known for the tunnel that leads visitors to the water.

Apollo Beach, Florida

Big Bend Power Plant Manatee Viewing Area

Manatees congregate around a power plant's discharge canal where the water is especially warm.

San Antonio, Mexico

La Lobera

Huge hole looks down onto an underground beach populated with sea lions.

Tiznit Province, Morocco

Legzira Beach

Rocky Atlantic beach home to a stunning stone arch.

Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts

Singing Beach at Manchester-By-The-Sea

Friction between grains of sand cause a curious "singing" sound.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hidden Beach

Secret hideaway for an alternative beach experience.

Rockaway Beach, Oregon

Twin Rocks

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.