“I’d love to come, but I’ll be on a tiny island in Belize that week, lying around in nets and whistling back at birds.”

Feel free to repurpose that sentence whenever the next chaotic holiday season happens to fall.

But first, maybe consult this slideshow, where we’ve gathered eight extremely beautiful leisure specimens ranging anywhere from cabins to historic lighthouses to jungle-obscured treehouses.

The types of places you may dream of absconding to for good. The types of places to drop off the grid entirely. The types of places to rent when you want to get away from it all.

We could go on, but the photos go on so much better...