Faraway Martha's Vineyard

Six former sea captains' houses, connected into one hotel in Vineyard Haven, hold the kind of bones that renovation budgets dream about. Faraway Martha's Vineyard has been around forever under various names, and the current owners have modernized without sanding off the character, which is a harder trick than it sounds on an island where "historic" can tip into "dusty." The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.