Places Rebecca Ro Wants to Go

This little slice of the Netherlands in the Pacific Northwest blooms in a rainbow of color each spring.

This public art piece proves that in Portland even reporting the weather is a thing of whimsy.

This gorgeous beach hides behind two headlands in Oregon's Ecola State Park.

This perfectly preserved Chinese medicine shop was untouched for decades before being reopened as a museum.

Where Nor'easters go to die.

Bridges, terraces, and replicas of historic structures all built of rock and petrified wood by one man.

This unassuming cheese empire in rural Oregon churns out more than 150,000 pounds of cheese each day.

The short-lived railroad town in central Oregon has been abandoned since the 1930s.

The park preserves a single, rare species of carnivorous plant that spells doom for unsuspecting insects.

Portlandia is the second-largest copper repoussé statue in the United States.

A volcanic fissure over two miles long and up to 70 feet deep.

The trunks of 3,000 year-old trees lurk beneath the surface of this crystal clear lake in Oregon.

Definitely not a clown bar.

Tiny horses tethered to antique rings are scattered around the city.

The world's last remaining store of its kind.

A chance to sleep among the firs and pines of the Oregon forest.

This extravagant Art Nouveau rest stop features a million-dollar view of the Columbia River.

This natural marble cave is one of only five national monuments in Oregon.

One of the world's tallest, oldest, and most disgusting chocolate cascades.

This strange hill on Old Fort Road where gravity works in reverse has been fascinating locals for years.

The oldest tofu shop in the United States is a firm favorite with locals.

On East Burnside, a 24-hour vending machine distributes world-class pastries.

Formerly secret, precariously perched boulders.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.