Places matthewboudier Wants to Go

The unusual lighthouse looms over waves of prairies with no sea in sight.

One of the final concrete ships built before World War II is now a crumbling breakwater.

The Arctic Archipelago is home to world's largest third order island: an island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island.

An island said to shake with the current.

Sitting empty in a lonely Canadian field is a century-old stone bunker sometimes called "One Man's Castle."

The remains of the worst maritime disaster in the history of the "Graveyard of the Pacific."

The water swaps direction twice a day, whipping into a frenzy of whirlpools and rapids.

Built after the 1991 discovery of one of the world's most complete T.rex skeletons in the nearby hills.

The most northerly active sand dunes in the world have some very rare botanical residents.

At least 14 twice-retired ships were sunk to make a lovely rusting breakwater in Comox Harbour.

Unlike many reclaimed, abandoned mines, this Canadian cave system is still just a dangerous maze.

This country market harbors goats on its roof.

The large fjord lake is thought to be the home of "Ogopogo," a giant sea serpent.

Roadside collection of 65,000 signs.

Every four years, millions of salmon fill a river so densely that its waters appear deep crimson.

The stunning remnants of this wreck emerge from an otherworldly backdrop of rainforests.

The wreckage still sits at the exact spot the plane crash-landed in 1945, carrying 1,000 pounds of explosives.

Earth's greatest purely vertical drop at 4,101 feet.

The entire length of the border is marked by a 20-foot-wide slash through the trees.

The remains of a Canadian train crash are now mouldering beneath layers of rust and graffiti.

Traditional 15th century Chinese garden in the middle of Vancouver.

A 98-room castle in the middle of Toronto that bankrupted a 19th century electricity multimillionaire.

This expansive bridge in the Canadian wilderness was originally just built for friends.

The colorful, smiling concrete silos of Vancouver.