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This remote luxury hotel rises on wooden stilts above the North Atlantic, a striking modern silhouette against one of the oldest landscapes on Earth. Fogo Island Inn was built to sustain the community of Joe Batt’s Arm, Newfoundland, and every detail — from hand-stitched quilts to locally forged furniture — reflects the resilience and craft of the outport culture that surrounds it.

Inside, twenty-nine rooms and suites frame the sea through floor-to-ceiling glass, while a rooftop hot tub and heritage-inspired library offer quiet counterpoints to the wind outside. Meals are drawn from the island itself: cod, partridgeberries, root vegetables and wild game, served with unhurried warmth by hosts drawn from the local community.

Beyond its walls, icebergs drift past in spring, whales surface in summer, and the barren cliffs glow amber at dusk. Fogo Island Inn is less a retreat than an immersion — a place where architecture, landscape and human history are inseparable, and where profits return directly to sustain the island’s future.