Visit Pacific beaches, temperate rainforests, alpine ridges, and glacier peaks in Olympic National Park.
Explore Lake Michigan beaches, dunes, wetlands, prairies, and forests in Indiana Dunes National Park.
An 8-km beach with no hotels at all, reached by boat through Jaragua National Park — the wildest sand in the Caribbean.
Palm-fringed national-park island reached by catamaran, with a starfish-filled natural pool on the way.
Granite-boulder islands in the Andaman Sea with some of Thailand’s clearest water and best coral.
Seven kilometres of pure white silica sand in the Whitsundays, swirling into the turquoise Hill Inlet.
Visit beaches, coral reefs, tropical forests, and historic ruins on Saint John in Virgin Islands National Park.
Sail to uninhabited reef-ringed islets.
Where hippos surf and elephants roam beaches.
Forested dune peninsula, UNESCO-listed.
Rainforest meeting beach, full of monkeys.
Caribbean archipelago of coral cays.
Golden beaches and turquoise coves linked by New Zealand’s easiest Great Walk — kayak in, hike out.
Caribbean coves and jungle trails where the Sierra Nevada meets the sea.
Infobox
