One of only four green sand beaches in the world, Papakolea sits at the southern tip of Hawaii’s Big Island. The ...

Formed within a 49,000-year-old cinder cone that is part of the Mauna Loa Volcano, the beach gets its green-colored sands from the crystals that have naturally evolved from the volcano. The sand ...

Imagine a beach where the sand shimmers not in the usual shades of gold, white, or black, but in a striking, rare green. This extraordinary phenomenon exists in just four places on Earth ...