There is a beach in Fort Bragg, California, that's famous for the iridescent sea glass that shimmers on its shores. A dump until the 1960s, Glass Beach underwent massive cleanup projects in the ...

Glass Beach near Fort Bragg, in northern California, is a literal example of the power of nature to transform trash into treasure. In the late afternoon sun with the waves gently lapping on shore ...

Glass Beach, we scribbled. Fort Bragg. And off we went on our big summer road trip. We hit the coast in Sonoma County, a few hours north of San Francisco, and for days we tramped around rivers, ...

Glass Beach near Fort Bragg is lined with smooth, colorful glass. The International Sea Glass museum nearby touts the highest concentration of sea glass in the world.

A recent list of the “16 Best Small Beach Towns in the U.S. for Summer” praised Fort Bragg for its sea lions and glass beach sights.

Many years later the sea glass phenomenon was born. The beach I had just visited was one of the former dump sites (it closed in 1967) and now falls within the boundaries of MacKerricher State Park .

4 Big River Beach On the south side of Mendocino, this is a wide and inviting beach at the end of the picturesque Big River. It’s a great spot for swimming, kayaking and bike riding.

Glass Beach near Fort Bragg in Northern California used to be the spot where residents dumped their trash, but now it is a spot of natural and man-made beauty.