Places rubysage Wants to Go

Nestled between a college and a golf course, the garden is home to more than 2,500 rhododendrons.

A puppeteer’s paradise offering shows, workshops, and an archive of over 2,000 puppets.

This indoor-outdoor Portland market is an ode to the lesser-known corners of Latin America’s varied foodscape.

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

Each winter this underground cave forms a dazzling ice palace.

Trails through lava-carved tube-caves display sparkling bacteria and a rich history.

A 17-acre urban oasis featuring a pollinator garden, heritage trees, and an aerial tree walk.

A bronze replica of half-consumed salt lick honors a quirky town tradition.

This Oregon farm is dedicated to teaching people the professional art of tree climbing.

An extraordinary mixture of natural beauty and man-made phenomena.

A roaring, awe-inspiring double cascade of icy water flows through woodland Oregon like something out of a Tolkien novel.

Here, cows that make vodka are treated like celebrities.

Founded by Cliff Barackman of 'Finding Bigfoot' fame, this museum is dedicated to the study of North America's unacknowledged hairy woodland hominids.

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

This charmingly homemade amusement park has been growing for 40 years.

This rare, carefully curated collection showcases the history of neon inside a grandiose Elks lodge.

Multiple waterfalls and several historic CCC buildings anchor this state park in Oregon's Willamette Valley.

This hotel has hardly changed in over a century, like a time capsule of old Oregon.

Despite a legend that says this highest peak in Oregon was climbed in high heels, scores of people have died on its slopes.

Hollowed out cedar log tubs set in an ancient towering forest.

All aboard the world's longest miniature railway.

Now a secluded county park, this site was once a "health tourism" destination for wealthy Oregonians.

An out-of-the-way state park in Oregon that features both a picturesque waterfall and the ruins of a hydropower plant.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.