10. Venice Beach in Los Angeles, Calif., is famous for its Ocean Front Walk, where fortune tellers and musicians perform alongside artists and vendors selling all types of food and crafts.
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9. El Matador State Beach in Malibu, Calif., sits at the bottom of steep cliffs and has a handful of sea caves by the water.
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8. Lanikai Beach on the east coast of Oahu, Hawaii, is an optimal place to watch the moon rise over the Mokuluas, the twin islands visible from the beach.
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7. Navagio Beach on Zakynthos, in the Ionian Islands of Greece, is nicknamed "Shipwreck" because of a ship called Panagiotis that went down in the cove while allegedly smuggling cigarettes from Turkey.
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6. Zenith Beach north of Sydney, Australia, is best surfed with a northeastern swell.
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5. Cabo San Lucas at the southern tip of the Baja California peninsula in Mexico is a popular spot to see sea lions gathering at El Arco, a natural rock formation where the Pacific Ocean meets the Sea of Cortez.
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4. Whitehaven Beach on Whitsunday Island off the coast of Queensland, Australia, has sand made of 98% silica, which gives it a bright, white color.
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3. Boulders Beach in Cape Town, South Africa, is full of granite rocks and a colony of African Penguins, an endangered species.
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2. Big Sur on the central coast of California sits on the Santa Lucia Mountains, which rise sharply from the Pacific Ocean. The area's also home to Cone Peak, the highest coastal mountain on the continental states of America.
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1. Glass Beach at MacKerricher State Park in northern California used to be a place where residents of Fort Bragg dumped their trash, including household appliances and even vehicles. In the decades since the state banned this practice and cleaned up the area of the larger debris, the waves turned the remaining glass into smooth fragments that litter the beach.
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