Visiting sea caves isn’t just about seeing a cool grotto carved out by the ocean — it’s also about the journey to find these caverns. There are cliffs to descend, rocks to scramble, tide pools to ...

Sunny Jim’s Sea Cave sits beneath the cliffs of La Jolla, accessible only through a narrow hand-carved tunnel dug over a century ago. Once used by bootleggers during Prohibition, the passage descends ...

You don’t really spot the secret staircase down to the sea at first. After all, it’s tucked neatly in between the bumper stickers and seashell magnets of a clapboard trinket shop, and the views out ...