In the series premiere, the Sand Masters team travels to Miami, Florida to build a sand sculpture for the opening night of the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus and to celebrate P.T. Barnum's 200th birthday. Their 60-ton sculpture featured an acrobat, an elephant, and a motorcycle, and incorporated into the design a surprise firey explosion.

The team travels to Costa Rica to meet their hyperactive client who asks them to create a coffee-themed sand sculpture celebrating the international launch of her local coffee company. While there, they learn to make and serve the perfect cup of coffee and visit a remote coffee plantation, which inspires them to incorporate coffee grinds and a working coffee maker into their sand sculpture.

The team sculpts a centerpiece called "Aspen Snowmass" for the "Sandy Pants Rail Jam", a ski-and-snowboard competition at Buttermilk ski resort in Aspen, Colorado. Their abstract design includes a 30-foot box rail for riders to grind their boards and skies on.

The team celebrates the newest attraction at Legoland in Carlsbad, California by building a Star WarsLego-themed sand sculpture that features giant Lego building blocks and figures in the sand.

The team travels to Waikiki, Hawaii to build an island-theme sand sculpture with colored lights for the world famous Royal Hawaiian Hotel celebrating their $70 million renovation. They create Hawaii's first king and queen (King Kamehameha I and Queen Kaahumanu) out of sand and their summer home of Coconut Grove right on the queen's birthday.

The team travels to New Zealand to create a historical sand sculpture the represents the Maori way of life for the "Matariki" (Maori New Year) festival. But in order to get the sculpture approved they must meet with the local tribal elders of Whareroa Marae village to ask for permission to build. Rusty gets a traditional Maori tattoo and the team participates in the Haka warrior dance.

The team heads to Irwindale, California for the Original Renaissance Pleasure Faire to build a grand sand castle to celebrate its 50th anniversary. The sky-high sculpture features two huge castles, a maiden, a knight with a battle axe battling a giant dragon that breathes smoke, and the Tudor rose insignia of Queen Elizabeth I.

The team visit Patong Beach in Phuket, Thailand, to build a splashy sand sculpture featuring a temple, lotus flowers, giant praying hands, an elephant shooting water from its trunk, and motion-detected sprinklers all celebrating the Songkran water festival of the Thai New Year. They also participate in a massive city-wide water fight and help paint murals in a Buddhist temple.

The team visits Ponce, Puerto Rico to create a massive sand sculpture that features the city's traditions: their flag, lion, landmark firehouse, Parque de Bombas (built in 1883), burying the sardine (to signal end of Carnival), and vejigante (traditional Carnival character that resembles a demon clown) in the Plaza Las Delicias to celebrate the annual Ponce Carnival. They also visit a local mask maker whose been designing masks for generations, but while there Andy gets sick and goes to the hospital for dehydration.

The team heads to Santa Anna, California to build a launch pad sand sculpture for the Discovery Science Center annual soda bottle Boeing rocket-launch event for children. The sculpture features a giant 12 foot rocket launching in front of a massive moon, mission control, and company logo.

An enormous top-secret sand sculpture is created to help a California surfer propose to his girlfriend.

An imaginative sand sculpture is built to celebrate the 15th birthday of The Crayola Factory discovery center in Easton, Pennsylvania.

Rusty, Kirk and the team are hired by the Navy to create a massive sand sculpture in the center of Times Square in honor of New York City's Fleet Week and to celebrate the centennial of American Naval Aviation.