Album: Retro Travel Posters

Description: OCEAN TO BAY: concentric sunset rings behind a catamaran's silhouette, marking the narrow strip of Delaware sand between the Atlantic and Rehoboth Bay.

Description: DELAWARE'S QUIET COAST: a wooden boardwalk leads to Indian Beach's dunes under a purple-to-gold sunset. Beach grass and open sky instead of boardwalk crowds.

Description: DELAWARE-MARYLAND LINE: the black-banded Fenwick Island Lighthouse against a warm sunset over calm green water. Standing watch over that border since 1859.

Description: TOPSAIL ISLAND, NORTH CAROLINA: a surfer's silhouette rides a big wave past Surf City's wooden fishing pier. A go-to for East Coast surfers.

Description: AMERICA'S GREATEST FAMILY RESORT: the Music Pier's Spanish Colonial towers rise over a crowded boardwalk and beach umbrellas. A dry Jersey Shore town that's kept the slogan for a century.

Description: THE FAMILY RESORT BY THE SEA: a red brick boardwalk pavilion and Ferris wheel over a beach crowded with striped umbrellas. Ocean City, Maryland's pitch since the boardwalk's earliest days.

Description: SUN SAND & NEON! sums up the mid-century motel strip that made Wildwood an icon: a Ferris wheel and a Doo Wop motel sign glowing turquoise against the night.

Description: SANDY HOOK NEW JERSEY: horizontal bands of color over Gunnison Beach's dunes as a cargo ship passes on the horizon. The barrier peninsula where the Jersey Shore meets New York Harbor.

Description: Chestnut and pinto ponies wander the surf under a pastel dusk sky, WHERE THE WILD HORSES ROAM printed right on the design. Sea oats and dune grass frame Maryland and Virginia's most famous barrier island.

Description: EXPLORE THE EASTERN SHORE: a chestnut and pinto pony wades below the striped Assateague Lighthouse while a sailboat drifts past the pines. Virginia's wild-pony coast.

Description: Deck chairs and swimsuits line Ventnor City's pier against a teal Jersey Shore sea, the quieter beach town south of Atlantic City's boardwalk.

Description: THE CITY BY THE SEA, the motto Long Beach has carried since its 1920s heyday: striped umbrellas and a stone jetty cutting into the surf.

Description: SAIL THE MAINE COAST: a two-masted schooner crosses Penobscot Bay, evergreen shoreline on both sides. The same pitch that's drawn windjammer cruises here for generations.

Description: Palm trees and Spanish moss-draped branches frame the red and white striped Harbour Town lighthouse as a yacht idles offshore. South Carolina's most photographed lighthouse.

Description: THE GRAND STRAND: striped umbrellas crowd the sand beneath a boardwalk Ferris wheel and roller coaster. The 60-mile run of South Carolina coast this town anchors.

Description: A yellow beach umbrella shades swimmers on Surfside Beach's sand while children play near the water below a wooden pier. The quieter stretch of the Grand Strand south of Myrtle Beach's crowds.

Description: GEORGIA'S COASTAL JEWEL: a bleached driftwood tree frames a calm Jekyll Island sunset, the same bone-white wood that made Driftwood Beach one of the Golden Isles' most photographed stretches of sand.

Description: U.S. 301 & I-95, DILLON, SOUTH CAROLINA: Pedro and his giant sombrero tower right on the highway, vintage cars parked outside the Sombrero Restaurant. The most famous pit stop on the East Coast.

Description: A surveyor's tripod sits on the misty shoreline where evergreens have stood guard for centuries. OAK ISLAND NOVA SCOTIA: home of the money pit legend and 200 years of treasure hunters.

Description: The only lighthouse still standing guard over the Georgia coast, this black and white striped tower rises over dune grass and a red-roofed keeper's cottage. Savannah's closest beach.

Description: FLORIDA'S GOLD COAST frames the pink Mediterranean Revival resort Addison Mizner made famous, palms and hibiscus crowding a private pool. Old Florida glamour, still standing.

Description: FLORIDA'S GULF COAST: sailboats and striped umbrellas line Clearwater's pier against a bright turquoise sky. One of Florida's most-visited beaches, and it shows.

Description: FLORIDA'S SPACE COAST: smoke trails a launching rocket while a lone surfer rides the swell underneath it. NASA and world-class surfing, same horizon.

Description: WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS BEACH: a cherry-red 1957 Chevy convertible parked on the sand under the Anglers Club pier, turquoise waves rolling in behind it. The claim that made Daytona famous, decades before NASCAR.

Description: FLORIDA'S LUCKIEST FISHING VILLAGE: a sport-fishing boat glides across Destin's signature emerald water. The nickname this Panhandle harbor earned from decades of record catches.

Description: FLORIDA'S GATEWAY TO THE GULF STREAM: a sportfishing boat idles through Boynton's drawbridge, palms lining both banks of the inlet. Deep-sea fishing country.

Description: FLORIDA'S TROPICAL PARADISE: resort towers and palm trees line the shore as a red speedboat cuts through turquoise water. The southernmost stop on Florida's Paradise Coast.

Description: AMERICA'S WINTER PLAYGROUND: curved Art Deco facades line Ocean Drive as palm trees and vintage swimwear fill the sand. The pitch that built South Beach into an icon.

Description: FLORIDA'S PARADISE COAST: a wooden pier runs into bright turquoise water between rows of palm trees. Known as much for the beach as for the shops on Fifth Avenue.

Description: Golden-sailed boats float across the Bay of Naples, Mount Vesuvius looming over the waterfront. NAPOLI: an Italian port city that's lived in the volcano's shadow for two thousand years.

Description: VENEZIA ITALY: a golden-prowed gondola sits in the foreground as St. Mark's Campanile and the Doge's Palace rise over the Grand Canal. The square that's anchored this floating city for a thousand years.

Description: Chief Little Owl's carved eagle crown watches over four walkers on Bethany Beach's boardwalk, THE QUIET RESORT printed beneath a golden sky. Delaware's original alternative to the busier Ocean City boardwalk.

Description: The tallest brick lighthouse in America still guards the Graveyard of the Atlantic, its black and white spiral cutting a dusky Outer Banks sky. Dune grass sways below.

Description: A classic elevated beach house perches on Nags Head's dunes as seagulls circle overhead. Famous for its wraparound porches and shifting Outer Banks sand.

Description: This lighthouse is still one of the few on the East Coast you can climb for free, standing here against a coral pink sky over marsh grass and dunes.

Description: THE PEARL OF THE OUTER BANKS, an island so remote it's still ferry-only: a sailboat docks beside the white lighthouse, moss-draped trees framing the salt marsh.