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/ August 16, 2026
Meteor at Wet’n Wild São Paulo is Brazil’s answer to the trap-door era of water slides: a 40-metre (131 ft) capsule slide that the park bills as the tallest capsule slide in the world. Riders are sealed into a launch capsule 13 storeys up; when…
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/ August 16, 2026
Toboganxote at Xplor Park: Height & Stats Toboganxote (also styled Toboganxotes) is the giant raft slide at Xplor Park in Mexico’s Riviera Maya, and one of the tallest water slides ever built in Latin America. Its structure stands 41 metres tall — about 134.5 feet…
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/ August 16, 2026
Insano at Beach Park, on Brazil’s northeastern coast near Fortaleza, is arguably the most famous water slide in Latin America. Its tower stands 41 metres tall — 134.5 feet, the height of a 14-storey building — and its near-vertical chute accelerates riders from zero to…
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/ August 16, 2026
Daredevil’s Peak is the crowning slide of Thrill Waterpark at Perfect Day at CocoCay, Royal Caribbean’s private island in the Bahamas. Dropping from a 135-foot (41 m) tower, it opened in 2019 as the tallest water slide in North America — a startling superlative for…
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/ August 16, 2026
Captain Spacemaker at Caribe Bay in Jesolo, Italy, is one of Europe’s great water slide landmarks: a 42-metre (137.8 ft) tower slide that held the title of world’s tallest water slide for a decade and a half, from its 1999 debut until 2014. It remains…
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/ August 16, 2026
Junoon Drop is the headline water coaster at Aquarabia, the giant water park that opened at Qiddiya City, Saudi Arabia, on April 23, 2026. Rising more than 42 metres (roughly 138 feet) inside the park’s Camel Rock centerpiece, it is billed as the tallest and…
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/ August 16, 2026
Tucked under the enormous glass dome of the American Dream mega-mall in East Rutherford, New Jersey, Thrillagascar and Jungle Jammer are a pair of trap-door drop-capsule slides that plunge from 142 feet — making them the tallest drop-capsule water slides in the world, and almost…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Primorsky Oceanarium sits on Russky Island off Vladivostok, at Russia’s far southeastern edge, where the country meets the Sea of Japan. Officially opened on September 3, 2016 — with President Vladimir Putin cutting the ribbon — and welcoming its first visitors three days later…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most aquarium tunnels last thirty or forty meters. The one at Antalya Aquarium keeps going for 131 — a curving underwater walkway that is widely cited as the longest aquarium tunnel in the world. Above and around it drift hundreds of sharks and rays in…
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/ August 16, 2026
At the edge of the Port of Las Palmas on Gran Canaria stands a white, wave-patterned building that holds Europe’s most dramatic single aquarium view: a curved acrylic window 36 meters wide and seven meters tall, the largest of its kind in the world. This…
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/ August 16, 2026
On a headland in Ocean Expo Park on Okinawa’s Motobu Peninsula stands the aquarium that taught the world how to keep whale sharks. Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium — chura means “beautiful” in the Okinawan language, umi means “sea” — opened in 2002 as the successor to…
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/ August 16, 2026
When Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan opened on the Tempozan waterfront in 1990, it was the largest public aquarium on the planet. More than three decades later, the building with the fish-mosaic facade is still one of Japan’s defining aquariums — a vertical journey that starts in…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Moskvarium — formally the Center of Oceanography and Marine Biology — opened on August 5, 2015, on the grounds of VDNH, Moscow’s sprawling Soviet-era exhibition park, right beside the landmark Cosmos pavilion. With about 25 million litres of water inside a 53,000-square-metre complex, it…
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/ August 16, 2026
The tallest water slide in North America isn’t at a Disney or Universal park — it’s in Wisconsin Dells. The Fall crowns the Icarus Tower at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, dropping riders from 145 ft (44.2 m). It opened in summer 2024 as…
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/ August 16, 2026
Hurricane Tower at 88°C Spring Water World in Xianyang, China, stands 147.6 ft (45 m) tall — tied with Luzhou’s Hurricane for the title of tallest water slide in China. It opened in 2016, one year after its western-China counterpart, at exactly the same height.
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/ August 16, 2026
Hurricane at Merry Pi Beach Park in Luzhou, in China’s Sichuan region, is the tallest water slide in China at 147.6 ft (45 m). It opened in 2015 — one year after Kansas City’s Verrückt reset the world record, and squarely in the era when…
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/ August 16, 2026
Golden Wing Spiral is the second of the twin water slides The Land of Legends in Antalya, Türkiye opened for 2026 on its new Dragonfly Tower, standing at a listed height of roughly 167 ft (about 51 m). As the name suggests, it takes the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Stukas BOOM is the legend of Caneva Aquapark: twin free-fall body slides plunging roughly 32 meters (105 ft) on the shore of Lake Garda — and since its modern refit, the drop begins with a trapdoor opening beneath your feet. It closes out our list…
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/ August 16, 2026
Emerald Blur is one of the two headline water slides The Land of Legends in Antalya, Türkiye added for 2026 — twin slides descending from the park’s new Dragonfly Tower at a listed height of roughly 167 ft (about 51 m). That figure would place…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Géant is the tower that dominates Wave Island in Monteux, Provence: a 33-meter (108.3 ft) free-fall speed slide, among the tallest water slides ever built in Europe. Opened in 2015 with the park itself, it ranks #24 on our list of the tallest water…
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