Venice Beach

Venice sits on a fossil layer 18 to 35 feet down, and storms and waves push ten-million-year-old shark teeth up onto this beach — the reason the city holds the Shark Tooth Capital title. The city beach at West Venice Avenue adds lifeguards every day and a reef a quarter mile offshore for snorkelers.

After storms, when waves push fresh fossils into the shallows.

Rent the screened "Venice Snow Shovel" scoop at Papa's Bait Shop on the 740-foot pier before you hunt.

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