Located in Connecticut’s northwest corner, Kent has become a destination for quietly artsy and eclectic living. Its village center has exactly one stoplight. But that one stoplight marshals so many of the good things in life.

Roughly halfway along the Connecticut shore, Guilford seems dreamed up by a particularly aspirational Hallmark writer — from an iconic town green and friendly shopkeepers to the third largest collection of historical homes in New England.

Just 45 miles from Manhattan, New Canaan is a town that’s seduced generations of New Yorkers the moment they utter “I need to get out of the city.” It’s also a renowned stop on the modernism trail.