Researchers found 1,000 location-tagged beach photos from Instagram from 100 different beach towns in the US. Despite the state having plenty of beach towns, researchers only considered the top 100 beach towns with populations under 250,000 using Census Bureau data, which isn’t fully collected across the Hawaiian islands. The aptly-named second-happiest beach town in AmericaThe second-happiest beach town in America is supposedly Mount Pleasant (a little too on-the-nose, no?). The third and fourth locations where people look happiest on the beach were both in California: Huntington Beach and Newport Beach, respectively. Out of the 100,000 beach photos analyzed, this Virginia Beach town had the lowest happiness score, at 23 out of 100.