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/ July 18, 2026
The Minnesota Zoo opened on May 22, 1978, in Apple Valley, as one of only two state-supported zoos in the country (the other is the North Carolina Zoo). Spread across 485 acres, it was among the first American zoos to organize exhibits by habitat rather
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/ July 18, 2026
Xcelerator is the hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, and it’s the ride that started an entire category: when it opened on June 22, 2002, it was Intamin’s very first hydraulically launched coaster, a technology later scaled up for
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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known
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/ July 17, 2026
Silver Bullet is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted steel roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Themed to the park’s Ghost Town section, the $16 million ride opened to the public on December 7, 2004, giving riders a western-flavored spin on the
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/ July 17, 2026
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex built into the hills of the Eifel mountains near the village of Nürburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Construction began in September 1925 and the circuit opened in the spring of 1927, originally conceived as a proving ground for German automakers
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/ July 17, 2026
Hampden Park holds 51,866 spectators today — a fraction of the roughly 150,000 fans who once packed into Scotland’s national stadium during its early-20th-century heyday. Located in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, the ground has been reshaped more dramatically than almost any other stadium
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/ July 17, 2026
Jones Beach Theater is one of the most recognizable outdoor concert venues in the New York area, prized as much for its waterfront setting as for its lineup of touring acts. Located within Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, it’s officially known as
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/ July 17, 2026
KOKO in Camden Town is one of London’s best-known mid-sized music venues, and if you’re trying to work out whether it fits your show, club night, or private event, the capacity numbers matter more than the venue’s famous history does. KOKO holds up to 1,500
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/ July 17, 2026
Paradiso is a music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, housed in a striking 19th-century building that began life as a house of worship. Built between 1879 and 1880 for De Vrije Gemeente (The Free Congregation) by architect Gerlof Salm, the structure sat empty
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/ July 17, 2026
The Milwaukee County Zoo is a 190-acre zoological park located at 10001 W. Bluemound Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its roots trace back to 1892, when a small menagerie opened in the city’s Washington Park, but the zoo moved to its current, much larger site in
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/ July 17, 2026
The Indianapolis Zoo sits in White River State Park about a mile from downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Opened at its current riverside location on June 11, 1988, the zoo traces its roots back to an original site at Washington Park that first opened on April 18,
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/ July 17, 2026
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden opened to the public in 1875, making it the second-oldest zoo in the United States behind only the Philadelphia Zoo. Located at 3400 Vine Street in the Avondale neighborhood, the zoo has grown from its 19th-century roots into one
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/ July 17, 2026
HangTime is a steel dive coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, built by Germany’s Gerstlauer Amusement Rides. It opened to the public on May 18, 2018, replacing the site once occupied by the Boomerang shuttle coaster and the RipTide Top Spin ride,
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/ July 17, 2026
GhostRider is a wooden roller coaster in the Ghost Town section of Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Designed by Robin Hall and built by Custom Coasters International at a cost of about $24 million, it opened to the public on December 8, 1998,
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/ July 16, 2026
Elitch Gardens Theme & Water Park sits on about 65 acres along the Platte River in downtown Denver, Colorado, combining roughly 40 rides — including six roller coasters — with the adjacent 20-acre Island Kingdom Family Water Park. It’s one of the few U.S. amusement
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/ July 16, 2026
Planning a trip to the Memphis Zoo? Here’s the full picture: current hours, ticket prices, parking, the must-see exhibits like Zambezi River Hippo Camp and Teton Trek, and the complete story behind the zoo’s famous former panda exhibit. Tucked inside Overton Park in Midtown Memphis,
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/ July 16, 2026
The Racer is a wooden racing roller coaster at Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, that opened with the park on April 29, 1972. Designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen and built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters, it features two parallel tracks, Blue and Red,
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/ July 16, 2026
Celtic Park is the football stadium in the Parkhead district of Glasgow, Scotland, that has served as Celtic FC’s home ground since it opened on 20 August 1892. Nicknamed “Paradise” after a journalist likened the move from Celtic’s old, cramped ground to “leaving the graveyard
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/ July 16, 2026
Ibrox Stadium sits on the south bank of the River Clyde in Glasgow’s Govan area and has served as the home of Rangers F.C. since the original Ibrox Park opened in December 1899. Today it stands as the third-largest football stadium in Scotland, a red-brick
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/ July 16, 2026
The Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum opened on May 1, 1923, in the Exposition Park neighborhood of Los Angeles as a memorial to World War I veterans. Designed by architects John and Donald Parkinson, the horseshoe-shaped stadium has served as one of the most versatile venues
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