Driftwood Beach

Drop anchor off the northern end of Jekyll Island, Georgia, and you'll find one of the most otherworldly shorelines in the country — consistently ranked among the top beaches in the US. Driftwood Beach is famous for its hauntingly beautiful landscape of bleached, twisted tree trunks jutting out of the sand, sculpted by decades of tidal erosion. It's the kind of place that looks like it belongs in a dream, and you can explore scattered shells and sea life along the shore once you wade in.