Ground Floor: Ocean Club Residences, Sea Island, Georgia After his first visit to coastal Georgia in 1911, auto magnate Howard Coffin began purchasing tracts of land on two barrier islands.

Ground Floor: Ocean's Edge at Singer Island, Florida Sometimes less is more.

Ground Floor: One&Only Palmilla, Los Cabos Los Cabos inhabits the tip of the Baja Peninsula, where the crystalline Sea of Cortés meets the mountains rising from the Mexican desert.

Ground Floor: Orient-Express For 25 years, the Orient-Express hotel group has created resorts that immerse guests in the indigenous lifestyles of its distinctive destinations.

Ground Floor: Palazzo Dorottya, Budapest Hungary’s capital, Budapest, ranks among Eastern Europe’s liveliest cities.

Ground Floor: Palmyra, Montego Bay Jamaica, an enduring favorite of honeymooners and cruise-goers, has officially gone upscale.

Ground Floor: Peachtree, Atlanta Architect Robert A.M. Stern set the bar skyscraper-high for his current project, the Mansion on Peachtree.

Ground Floor: Punta Dominical, Costa Rica Friends and family warned her about buying a vacation home in a foreign country, but Debbie West likes to take chances.

Ground Floor: RedTail Mountain, Tennessee Located on 720 acres in the Appalachians RedTail Mountain aspires to provide a substantial escape from urban life.

Ground Floor: Roaring Fork Club, Colorado Golf, skiing and serenity enticed Jim Cobb and his family to Colorado’s Roaring Fork Valley for vacation each year.

Ground Floor: Shannon Valley Ranch, California Creating Shannon Valley Ranch was not as simple as filing a site plan with the county and revving up the dirt movers.

Ground Floor: Silverline, Colorado Telluride’s Mountain Village will soon have its horizon gilded—or rather silvered—thanks to the new condominium development, Silverline.