Around 15 million people make their way to the stunning Lake Tahoe every single year. Not only is it the biggest alpine lake ...

In the mid-1980s, Marriott took ownership of a field of sand dunes just outside of Palm Springs, leveled 450 acres of them and built both a hotel and a mega lake about the size of 500 Olympic ...

Winter enthusiasts are welcome to climb the 80-to-100-foot tall dunes and sled down the sugar sand to the Lake Michigan shoreline ... so stick around for a sunset atop the dune or at the shoreline.

In Cambodia, the government is using sand to fill in lakes around its capital ... to save their homes on the city's largest natural lake. More from True Cost Sand is the most exploited natural ...