American model Emily Ratajkowski walks on the grid during the F1 Grand Prix of Monaco at Circuit de Monaco on May 26, 2024 in Monte-Carlo, Monaco. (Photo by Claudia Greco/Reuters)

Janja Garnbret of Slovenia competes during the women's boulder qualification of the IFSC World Cup Innsbruck 2024 on June 26, 2024 in Innsbruck, Austria. (Photo by Marco Kost/Getty Images)

American-South African actress Madelaine Petsch attends the 17th Annual Los Angeles Haunted Hayride at Griffith Park on September 26, 2025 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images)

With temperatures soaring and summer well underway, countless Americans will be spending their Independence Day weekend at the beach. Here we revisit some classic images from the turn-of-the-century to the 1930's of vacations by the sea, from Coney Island to Santa Monica.

Only after World War II did the secret spill: Ōkunoshima, located in the Inland Sea of Japan between Hiroshima and Shikoku, was the top-secret site for manufacturing chemical warfare. When the factories were closed down, a number of exotic wild rabbits were seen freely roaming the island. They were assumed to have been the test subjects for the chemical weapons, which the military failed to eradicate when the factory was demolished.

Life-sized body cast statues of “Another Place” created by the artist Antony Gormley look out to sea on April 12, 2011 in Crosby, England. Prospective Liberal Democrat candidiate Jack Colbert says the upkeep of the statues costs GBP 250,00 annually and they should be scrapped with the money being spent on frontline services. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)