Places Serendipity Wants to Go

This 22-acre botanical garden is home to the largest collection of rhododendrons in the world.

A comprehensive collection of bonsai set in a beautiful campus.

A beautiful footbridge with over 2,000 glass sculptures along the walls and ceiling.

On the Oregon coast is a natural hole that seems to be draining the sea.

This frequently-photographed waterfall takes only a short hike to visit.

The highest point in Washington state is a volcano covered in glaciers.

Native American burial mounds? Giant gopher dens? No one knows what created the Mima Mounds.

The first North American landing spot for James Cook on his third voyage of discovery in the Pacific.

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

The eerie remnants of an ancient forest were hidden under the sand for centuries.

Two massive rock outcroppings on the Oregon coastline.

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

A 36-ton remnant of the last Ice Age now resides amid picturesque vineyards.

The wooden airship was the largest flying boat ever built.

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

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

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

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

Private collection of art inspired by cabinets of curiosity.

This sandstone mansion was the home of two of Oregon's most important pioneers.

10,000 flowered plants bloom in the City of Roses.

A beautiful 62-acre Catholic shrine and botanical garden.

A sculpture of a salmon swimming through a brick building.

A tiny art gallery in Sunnyside helps keep Portland weird.