Daily Climate: Near the outer tip of Cape Cod, a small cottage faces west across the bay toward the mainland. Built in 1950, it measures 776 square feet smaller than many one-bedroom apartments. It has no garage and sits on less than an acre of land at the end of a dirt road.
The house is for sale. List price: $1.5 million.
The price tag is extra-high because this is one of a few hundred private properties within the Cape Cod National Seashore, a 40-mile stretch of undeveloped coast that runs up Cape Cod's...