The dome of San Gennaro in Praiano, Italy. The beauty of a beach town is multifaceted. On one hand, there are all of the natural elements—whether it’s the shimmering blue waters, the white-sand ...

While the most common image of beaches includes white sand and palm trees, beaches come in a rainbow of colors, from (almost) pure white to midnight black. That's because sand itself is the product of ...

Think ‘Japan’ and many evocative images spring to mind. One that probably doesn’t is a beautiful beach. Yet between the coastlines of Hokkaido island in the north and the tropical Okinawa archipelago ...