Places Marbles07 Wants to Go

A fairytale-like grove with a crystal-clear spring bubbling under the shade of a massive ancient tree.

A Caribbean chef recreates his enslaved great-great-grandmother's dishes inside the home she purchased after buying her freedom.

A statue of the formerly enslaved person considered "the first liberator of the Americas" stands in the town named after him.

This 1836 church, constructed by formerly enslaved people, honors a leader in Afrocentric music.

A stone circle on the slopes of a Caribbean volcano commemorates the leader of an anti-slavery uprising.

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

You can still find treasures on the pebbly beaches of one of the world's oldest jade-producing areas.

This Australian beach is composed of tiny shells.

Rusting, graffiti-covered tanks litter the beach of this island, once used by the U.S. military for target practice.

According to the locals, the sands of this secluded Norway beach are infused with gemstone particles.

Living fossils in this remote Australian bay provide a glimpse of what Earth may have looked like 3.5 billion years ago.

Crushed coral and crystals give the sand its signature coloration.

This industrial area was the dumping ground for massive amounts of trash, some of which washes up as tiny bits of sea glass.

Iron Age runes and ruins hide in plain sight along this Portuguese beach.

Centuries-old hoofprints and wagon tracks reveal themselves after a good winter storm.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

A nesting ground for four of the world’s seven marine turtle species, most of which are endangered.

Much of what constituted mid-century Liverpool now litters a beach outside of town.

Abandoned ships along a deserted beach feel like the set of a post-apocalyptic thriller.

When waves crash onto this section of beach, the rocks sing a song.

This amazingly preserved Gold Rush town is a historian's dream.

This eerily well-preserved coal town was saved from destruction by a Sean Connery movie.

This historic iron-working village is now a ghost town so immaculate that it looks as though it was recently built.