Places matthewboudier Wants to Go

One of the largest cat sanctuaries in North America is considered a "Club Med" for felines.

A winding stairway to a secluded beach in a residential neighborhood.

A floating McDonald's built for Expo '86 is now a derelict relic on Burrard Inlet.

Mysterious wreckage of a small plane has been lodged in this tree since at least 1971.

Railways may have forged this quintet of lovely tunnels, but now they are open to hikers.

70,000 empty bottles of Coke comprise an ad seen only from the air.

One of the largest ancient geoglyphs in the world is a tall desert god used for predicting the weather.

Towns with a resource known as "white gold," valuable enough to fight a war over, now stand ghostly and empty.

This bright yellow bridge is a true engineering feat.

The imposing piece of artwork is a celebration of Pan-American fraternity.

The ruins of a grand theater destroyed during the most powerful seismic catastrophe ever recorded.

The hellish conditions of this abandoned mine that snakes beneath the Pacific Ocean gave it its diabolic name.

The ruins of a pre-Columbian fortress city so secure it held off the Spanish conquistadors for over 20 years.

One of the world's most advanced radio observatories sprawls across the Atacama Desert.

The largest geyser field in the southern hemisphere is a spectacular sight.

A beautiful little bookshop located in the middle of a desert.

You can swim in these highly salty, mesmerizingly blue lakes in the Atacama Desert.

This abandoned nitrate town was repurposed as a dictator's prison.

Instead of using billboards, some people here relay their messages on the side of a mountain.

A sculpture of a giant hand reaches for the stars in the middle of the Atacama desert.

Giant fake rocks that shielded Bond lie in wait for their next action scene.

A fantastical group of cliffside stairways, bridges, and twisting paths carved out of stone provide a surreal coastal hike.

What was once a unique system of urban elevators is turning into a mechanical ruin.

This iconic hilltop church doubled as a lighthouse in the 19th century, guiding ships into the port of Valparaíso.