Île-de-Sein

Île de Sein is a tiny, otherworldly sliver of land off the tip of Brittany, barely rising above the Atlantic swell and stretching just 2 km in an S-shape. You anchor off this remote spot roughly 5 km from the Pointe du Raz, surrounded by the lighthouses and buoys that mark its notoriously rocky, shallow approaches. The island earned legendary status in WWII when nearly every able-bodied man answered de Gaulle's call and sailed to England to join the Free French Forces — a story you'll feel everywhere here.