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/ August 16, 2026
Leningrad Zoo opened in 1865 in Alexander Park on St. Petersburg’s Petrogradskaya Storona, founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt as a private zoological garden. It is one of the oldest zoos in Russia and the most northerly of the country’s major zoos, and today it
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/ August 16, 2026
Mean Streak was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 11, 1991, in the park’s Frontier Town section. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation from more than 1.5 million board feet of treated
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/ August 16, 2026
Apocalypse: The Ride is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened on May 23, 2009, originally themed to the film Terminator Salvation before Six Flags rebranded it Apocalypse
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/ August 16, 2026
Rising from Rungra Island in the middle of Pyongyang’s Taedong River, the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium is one of the most extraordinary — and least visited — sports venues on Earth. Its scalloped roof of 16 concrete arches, designed to resemble a magnolia blossom,
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest zoos in the world that are still operating as of August 2026 — ranked by the year each institution first opened its gates to visitors as a zoo. Charter dates and royal menageries that never became public zoos don’t
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 largest sports stadiums in the world by official seating capacity — stadiums that are open and hosting events as of August 2026, with every figure verified against current sources. Pure motorsport venues are excluded (more on that below), and stadiums
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/ August 15, 2026
On April 2, 1999, Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure changed coaster design forever: it was the world’s first floorless roller coaster, a Bolliger & Mabillard creation where riders sit in open-sided seats with nothing but air beneath their feet. Add seven inversions across nearly
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/ August 15, 2026
Rising from the Egypt section of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Montu is one of the most decorated inverted roller coasters ever built. When it opened on May 16, 1996, it was the world’s tallest and fastest inverted coaster, and its seven inversions still tie it
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/ August 15, 2026
When Viper opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain on April 7, 1990, it was the tallest and fastest looping roller coaster in the world — a 188-foot Arrow Dynamics giant that hurls riders through seven inversions above the Baja Ridge section of the Valencia, California
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/ August 15, 2026
When Goudurix opened with Parc Astérix on April 30, 1989, it arrived swinging: seven inversions packed into a single ride, jointly holding the European record for the most inversions on a roller coaster at its debut. Nearly four decades later, the Vekoma-built looper — named
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/ August 15, 2026
Tucked into the lush lowlands of Retalhuleu, Guatemala, Avalancha is the ride that put Central America on the roller coaster map. The steel looper at Xetulul theme park throws riders through eight inversions — a figure that lands it among the roller coasters with the
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/ August 15, 2026
Voltron Nevera is Europa-Park’s electrifying showpiece: a Mack Rides “Stryker Coaster” that opened on 26 April 2024 in the German park’s new Croatian-themed area. Its party trick is a beyond-vertical launch angled at 105 degrees — the train accelerates up and over backwards-leaning track, an
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/ August 15, 2026
Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire is best known as a zoo with a serious coaster habit, and Sik is the most extreme expression of it. Opened on 2 July 2022, the bright-green Intamin machine turns riders upside down ten times per circuit – matching Colossus
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/ August 15, 2026
Somewhere in St. Petersburg, a roller coaster with ten inversions is named after a sausage factory. Velikolukskiy Myasokombinat-2 – literally “Velikiye Luki Meat Processing Plant No. 2” – operates at Wonder Island (Divo Ostrov), the amusement park on Krestovsky Island, and it carries the name
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/ August 15, 2026
Decepticoaster is the headline thrill machine of Universal Studios Beijing — a launched Bolliger & Mabillard sitting coaster themed to the Transformers franchise’s villainous Decepticons. It opened with the park on September 20, 2021, anchoring the Transformers: Metrobase land with 3,700 feet of looping steel.
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/ August 15, 2026
Just outside Rome, at the movie-themed Cinecittà World, sits Italy’s answer to the inversion arms race. Altair has been turning riders upside down ten times per circuit since the park’s opening day on 24 July 2014, a total that only one roller coaster on Earth
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/ August 15, 2026
Tucked into Loca Joy Holiday Theme Park in Yongchuan, on the western edge of Chongqing, China, is a roller coaster that belongs to one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. Crazy Coaster – known locally as 十环云霄飞车, literally the “ten-loop sky coaster” –
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/ August 15, 2026
When Colossus opened at Thorpe Park on 22 March 2002, it did something no roller coaster had ever done: it turned riders upside down ten times in a single circuit. The Intamin-built machine instantly claimed the world inversion record and held it for over a
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/ August 15, 2026
Banshee at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, is the longest inverted roller coaster in the world — 4,124 feet of ski-lift-style track where the trains hang beneath the rails and riders’ legs dangle free. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard and opened on April 18, 2014,
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/ August 15, 2026
Hydra the Revenge at Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is the only roller coaster in the world that turns you upside down before you even climb the lift hill. Seconds after leaving the station, the Bolliger & Mabillard floorless coaster rolls lazily
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