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Beaches

Forks, Washington

Kalaloch Tree of Life

This large Sitka spruce that appears to be floating in mid-air, has defied logic for years.

Cheviot Beach

Portsea, Australia

Cheviot Beach

This Australian beach became famous when Prime Minister Harold Holt disappeared from its shores.

Baby loggerhead turtles, newly hatched in South Africa.

Found: Fossilized Tracks of Baby Sea Turtles in South Africa

Prehistoric squee!

Sabrina Imbler September 4, 2019

The two lighthouses of Puerto Morelos.

Puerto Morelos, Mexico

The Leaning Lighthouse

Still standing despite its considerable slant, this tilted lighthouse has become a local symbol of resilience.

The wreckage.

Edgartown, Massachusetts

Mysterious Chappaquiddick Shipwreck

The scarce remains of a sunken ship peek out from the sand on East Beach.

Inachori, Greece

Elafonisi (Deer Island)

A small island with shimmering pink sands, home to loggerhead turtles and rare plants.

The lighthouse being seen farther by the beach.

Point of Ayr Lighthouse

This 1776 beacon on the coast of Wales is said to have a ghost called Raymond, the last lighthouse keeper.

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift.

Bournemouth, England

Fisherman's Walk Cliff Lift

The world's shortest funicular ferries beachgoers a whopping 128 feet from clifftop to shore.

Seaweed blankets a beach in Martinique.

Welcome to the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, the Seaweed Superhighway

Researchers suspect that the smelly macroalgae will keep piling up on ocean shores.

Jessica Leigh Hester July 5, 2019

The Spanish colonial revival style of the Childs restaurant building made it unique at the time.

Brooklyn, New York

Childs Restaurant Building

The flagship building of an early national restaurant chain is a superb example of terra cotta art.

Macuti Lighthouse and Shipwreck

Beira, Mozambique

Macuti Lighthouse and Shipwreck

This rusted shipwreck directly in front of a century-old abandoned lighthouse looks almost surreal.

Brooklyn, New York

Calvert Vaux Cove

This small, hidden cove is home to abandoned boats.

The islands are beautiful, but littered with trash, both conspicuous and hidden.

A Remote Australian Archipelago Is Home to Roughly 600 People and 414 Million Pieces of Trash

The Cocos (Keeling) Island chain is beautiful, but littered with plastic debris.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 16, 2019

A sample of the particles discovered on the beaches of Japan's Motoujina Peninsula.

Found: Glass Fallout From the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

The particles have covered nearby beaches, unnoticed, for nearly 75 years.

Matthew Taub May 15, 2019

This <em>Aplidium stellatum</em> came ashore near Destin, Florida.

The Secret Life of 'Sea Pork,' The Organ-Like Blobs on Your Beach

Contains no actual pork.

Jessica Leigh Hester May 15, 2019

Wa Ale Island's main beach and turtle nesting site.

Kawthaung, Myanmar

Nesting Turtles of Wa Ale Island

How often do you find security guards patrolling tropical beaches to protect rare sea turtles from poachers?

The limestone landscape.

Borgholm N, Sweden

Neptuni Åkrar

An otherworldly, fossil-rich cobble beach holds Viking graves, cairns, and other remains.

Aquinnah, Massachusetts

Aquinnah Cliffs

Colorful clay cliffs tower over an unofficial nudist beach on Martha's Vineyard.