Playa Zipolite
Mexico’s Playa Zipolite has the relatively forbidding nickname “Beach of the Dead” among locals. The name comes from the many deaths that have occurred thanks to the area’s heavy riptides and proximity to large resorts that draw in voice swimmers. The macabre name hasn’t kept away visitors though, especially since it’s Mexico’s only legal nude beach.
Bikini Atoll
Bikini Atoll is one of the most naturally beautiful beaches in the world? So why are visitors forbidden from going there? Well, that has to do with the 23 nuclear bombs that the United States controversially detonated while using the area as a testing ground through the 1940s and 50s.
