Usually, round-ups of beaches in national newspapers or travel magazines are about the clearest waters and the whitest sands.
However, a recent article in the Guardian has rounded up some of the UK's more bizarre beaches, with one that you can only visit on a Thursday, and another that has a cave the precise length of an alien craft (not sure how they've worked that one out). They've also found a beach 'made of shipwrecks,' and a spooky Welsh stretch of sand that allegedly whistles.
And the North East hasn't escaped being saddled with a strange beach. In news that might surprise (and possibly offend) locals and visitors, Seaham's Vane Tempest Beach has been named as one of the country's oddest, for a slightly odd reason.
