Grays Harbor County, Washington

Kurt Cobain's Aberdeen and Pacific Ocean beaches - from Aberdeen's distinction as the birthplace of Kurt Cobain (the Nirvana frontman was born in Aberdeen in 1967, and the city honors his legacy with the Kurt Cobain Memorial Park and a "Come As You Are" sign welcoming visitors to the city - Aberdeen's working-class harbor town character and the gray Pacific Northwest sky arguably shaped Cobain's music as much as any deliberate artistic choice) to Grays Harbor's Ocean Shores and Pacific Coast beaches (the broad Pacific Ocean beaches of Ocean Shores and Westport draw surfers, razor clam diggers, and coastal recreation visitors from across western Washington to one of the Pacific Northwest's most accessible ocean beach destinations).