Bottles of sand from the beaches of the D-Day invasion are going on sale. Georges Lancelin unveiled the $8.75 product Friday, in time to pitch it to thousands of visitors arriving for the 50th ...

For that amount of sand, the tourist has reportedly been fined nearly $1,200. The sand from Sardinia’s beaches has been federally protected since 2017, Travel and Leisure reports.

Tourists bottle the sand up to then auction on online sites, BBC News reports. "Sandy beaches are one of the main attractions of Sardinia," a local environmental scientist told the BBC.

Mary Bertha Heye (1861-1934) became Mary Heye Rohse in 1890, but had not yet married in 1883, when the bottle was made, perhaps as a birthday or special occasion gift, when she was around twenty-two.

Collecting sand may seem like a harmless activity, but it could land you in a big heap of legal trouble on many beaches ...

Travel experts have warned against taking this commonly found item from places you're visiting this summer, as doing so could ...

One local news website, La Nuova Sardegna, posted a video of a couple it described as "probably foreigners", apparently filling a bottle with white sand from the beach at Arutas on the west coast ...

After almost 30 years in Italy, a bottle of sand from Uluru returns home An Italian tourist took the sand during her travels, but decades after taking the souvenir, she has sent it back to the red ...

I am spoilt for choices when it comes to buying souvenirs from here. There are jewellery, scarves, mosaics, ceramics and, of course, the usual fridge magnets and T shirts at every shop. But I am ...