Source: Jesse L. Summers

Comprising a little over a thousand acres, the beach above is named after John Pfeiffer, the beach’s cabin dwelling denizen since 1884. In hopes of preserving the bucolic beach, Pfeiffer neglected to sell his land to a Los Angeles developer in 1930 and instead sold 700 acres to the state of California three years later.

Overwhelming visitors with its steeply-sloped sands, Rio de Janeiro’s impressive Red Beach offers natural and tranquil elegance in a city known for its extravagant nightlife.

With a population of a little over 36,000, Kefalonia is the largest of the Ionian Islands in western Greece.