A spaceship has landed. No, you’re not in Big Sur, on the Pacific coast. You’re in Cape Porpoise, on the Atlantic.

By Colin W. Sargent

Drive north just past Nunan’s Lobster Hut on Route 9. Turn right on Marshall Point Road. When you pass through a tunnel of trees and enter an old set of granite gates, it’ll hit you. This is all it takes to travel through time to the 1960s—in a most magical way.

Inside this stunning octagonal oceanfront retreat, you suddenly find yourself in the 1965 Elizabeth Taylor/Richard Burton movie The Sandpiper.

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