“What separates Staples Point is that its greatest assets can’t be recreated,” says listing agent Sam Michaud of Legacy Properties Sotheby’s International Realty. “The land, the frontage, the five lighthouse views, the privacy and the proximity to Portland cannot be replicated.”

This restored mid-19th-century Victorian country house is set on Scotland’s Kintyre Peninsula, around 2.5 hours from Glasgow and just minutes from ferries to the Inner Hebrides.

A 10,800 ft² Greek Revival townhouse overlooking Washington Square Park has come to market after more than 60 years in the same family.

The property offers both scale and charming setting in a region gaining international attention for its wines and landscapes.

Set within the Sciusa Valley near Noli and Spotorno, the 3-bedroom residence occupies the villa’s piano nobile, its principal reception floor, with vaulted ceilings, 18th-century frescoes, private grounds and a swimming pool.

Just above the Arctic Circle, on Norway’s Lofoten Islands, this white 1950 farmhouse sits between wildflower meadows, steep mountains, fjords and white-sand beaches.

Built for Virginia’s Randolph family in the 1730s, the former plantation known as Tuckahoe was home to Thomas Jefferson for seven years of his childhood and still contains the schoolhouse where he received some of his earliest education.

Before the Statue of Liberty stood over New York Harbor, she rose above the rooftops of Paris. A former artist’s atelier is for sale on the street where the Statue of Liberty was built and assembled at the workshops of Gaget, Gauthier et Cie.

Perched above the surrounding vineyards, this rose-coloured French bastide takes in broad views across the Provençal coast near Cassis, a historic fishing port on the French Riviera about 30 minutes east of Marseille.

Once home to Sophia Loren and her husband, film producer Carlo Ponti, this secluded villa on Rome’s Appian Way sits above an ancient basalt quarry, with Roman mosaics, 2,000-year-old fragments and a history tied to Cinecittà, Rome’s legendary film studio and the heart of Italy’s postwar cinema.