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This beach is a prime example of how waste can be turned into something beautiful. The colourful sea glass here was created after the sea smoothed the rough edges of dumped broken glass from the 1960s.
Formed from billions of tiny shells, Shell Beach in Western Australia is among a handful of places where shells replace beach sand in a dramatic and picturesque way.
Named after its curved shape, Horseshoe Bay Beach is known for its signature pink sand, gorgeous turquoise water and natural limestone cliffs.
This beach is renowned for its dramatic black sand, basalt columns and powerful ocean waves. The distinctive black sands result from lava cooling rapidly upon meeting the ocean.
This beach on Spain’s northwest coast has stunning rows of giant arches that were formed by thousands of years of erosion. They loosely resemble the arches and buttresses of a cathedral.
Maho Beach finds itself at the end of the runway of the Princess Juliana International Airport, setting the scene for many videos and selfies of planes landing and departing.
Dig your own natural hot pool metres from the Pacific Ocean at Hot Water Beach. Here, naturally heated mineral water bubbles up from deep within the earth to emerge through golden sand.
Pig Beach is located on an uninhabited island in Exuma, the Bahamas. It takes its name from the fact that it is populated by a colony of feral pigs which live on the island.
Boulders Beach near Cape Town is one of the few places in the world where you can swim alongside African penguins. Watch them waddle from the boardwalks around Foxy Beach.
One of the most photographed landscapes in the Aegean Sea is Sarakiniko, a beach on Milos Island. It is famous for its smooth, white volcanic rock formations, which create a lunar-like landscape.