A staggering number of theaters once packed American cities, and Broadway was the flashy heart of Portland’s entertainment district. Headlined by the Paramount and the Broadway theaters—amongst the seven marquees visible in this 1930s postcard—today Broadway hosts…two.

Kind of an urban American cousin to the remote monasteries at Meteora and Mount Athos.

Henry Hefty won the competition to design Portland’s City Hall and construction made it as far as the building foundation before the New City Hall Commission–newly formed by the Oregon state legislature to wrest control of the project away from the city–changed their minds.

Carved into an extinct cinder cone volcano–Rocky Butte–in Portland, the Grotto at the Sanctuary of Our Sorrowful Mother is pretty metal as far as Catholic shrines go.

Protestors toppled Portland’s Theodore Roosevelt, Rough Rider during the Indigenous Peoples Day of Rage in 2020. That it was toppled might be the most interesting thing about what was otherwise a pretty dull equestrian statue, sculpted by Alexander Phimister Proctor and installed in 1922.