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/ July 25, 2026
Bank of America and the Carolina Panthers announced on July 23, 2026, a long-term extension of their naming-rights partnership for Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. Neither the length nor the financial value of the new agreement was disclosed, but it keeps one
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/ July 25, 2026
Rocket Arena is the downtown Cleveland arena that has been home to the Cleveland Cavaliers since it opened as Gund Arena on October 17, 1994. Known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse from 2019 to 2025, the venue took its current name in February 2025, when naming-rights
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/ July 25, 2026
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre opened on June 4, 1930, on Hollywood Boulevard at Vine Street, capping off vaudeville magnate Alexander Pantages’s chain of movie palaces with what many consider his grandest house. Designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca in a striking Art Deco style, the
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/ July 25, 2026
The Chicago Theatre has anchored State Street in the Loop since it opened on October 26, 1921, its towering marquee becoming one of the most photographed symbols of the city. Designed by the architecture firm Rapp & Rapp, the theater was built as a movie
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/ July 25, 2026
Roskilde Festival is an annual music and arts festival held at Dyrskuepladsen, just south of the city of Roskilde, Denmark, roughly 30 km (19 miles) west of Copenhagen. Founded in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, alongside promoter Carl
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/ July 25, 2026
ZooTampa at Lowry Park is a 63-acre nonprofit zoo in Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood, and it’s just added the biggest expansion in its history: the Florida Waters area, home to a brand-new manatee rescue habitat, stingrays, otters, and jellies. Whether you’re mapping out hours and
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/ July 25, 2026
Zoo Miami is Florida’s largest zoo, spread across roughly 750 acres in South Miami-Dade County. Its roots trace back to 1948, when a small collection of animals from a stranded road show — three monkeys, a goat, and two black bears — was housed at
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/ July 25, 2026
Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society sits inside Dreher Park in West Palm Beach, Florida, on a lush 23-acre site that has drawn visitors since it opened in 1961. What began as a small municipal attraction called the Dreher Park Farm Zoo has grown into
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/ July 25, 2026
Prowler is a wooden roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and opened to the public on May 2, 2009. Tucked into the park’s Africa section behind the Zulu attraction, the $8 million ride was the
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/ July 25, 2026
Mamba is the steel hypercoaster that has defined the skyline of Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri since 1998. Built by D.H. Morgan Manufacturing and designed by Steve Okamoto, it towers 205 feet over the park’s Africa section and remains Missouri’s fastest coaster and
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/ July 24, 2026
Birmingham Zoo has welcomed visitors to Lane Park in Birmingham, Alabama since it opened on April 2, 1955. What began as a modest municipal menagerie known as the Jimmy Morgan Zoo has grown into the state’s premier zoological institution, now spread across 122 acres of
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/ July 24, 2026
The Louisville Zoo opened on May 1, 1969, and has grown into Kentucky’s official state zoo, spread across 134 acres in the Poplar Level neighborhood of Louisville. Accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the zoo is home to more than 1,100 animals, ranging
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/ July 24, 2026
Bank of America and the Carolina Panthers announced on July 23, 2026 a long-term extension of their naming-rights agreement for Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, alongside new renderings of a $1.3 billion stadium overhaul. It’s one of several major pro-sports venues undergoing
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/ July 24, 2026
Delta Center sits in downtown Salt Lake City at 301 W. South Temple, and has served as the home arena of the Utah Jazz since it opened on October 9, 1991. Built in just over 15 months at a cost of roughly $93 million, the
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/ July 24, 2026
The Nürburgring is best known as one of the world’s most demanding motorsport complexes, but for one weekend each June its paddock and surrounding grounds in Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, transform into the site of Rock am Ring, Germany’s biggest rock music festival. Since 1985, the sprawling
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/ July 24, 2026
Parc Jean-Drapeau sits across Saint Helen’s Island and the artificial Notre Dame Island in the Saint Lawrence River, just east of downtown Montreal. Originally established as the city’s first major public park in 1874, the islands were reshaped in the 1960s and became world-famous as
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/ July 24, 2026
Parc del Fòrum is a sprawling seafront esplanade straddling the Sant Martí district of Barcelona and the neighboring town of Sant Adrià de Besòs. Built in 2004 to host the Universal Forum of Cultures, the roughly 200,000-square-meter (about 49-acre) site was designed by architects Elías
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/ July 24, 2026
Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens opened on May 12, 1914, growing from a single deer in a Springfield park pen into one of Northeast Florida’s premier family attractions. Sitting along the banks of the Trout River near its confluence with the St. Johns River, the AZA-accredited
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/ July 24, 2026
Poltergeist is the coaster that skips the climb and goes straight for the scream: instead of a chain lift, linear induction motors catapult the train to 60 mph in about 3.5 seconds, then dump riders into a tightly wound cobra roll, sidewinder, and corkscrew inside
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/ July 24, 2026
The Wonder Woman Golden Lasso Coaster opened on May 12, 2018, at Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio, becoming the world’s first single-rail roller coaster to open to the public. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction, it introduced the company’s Raptor track, a slender single
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