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/ July 29, 2026
The San Diego Zoo Safari Park opened on May 10, 1972, in the San Pasqual Valley near Escondido, California, as an extension of the San Diego Zoo focused on breeding and displaying animals in expansive, naturalistic habitats rather than traditional enclosures. Operated by the nonprofit
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/ July 29, 2026
Roger Williams Park Zoo sits inside the historic Roger Williams Park in Providence, Rhode Island, and traces its roots back to 1872, making it the third-oldest zoo in the United States. What began as a small collection of animals has grown into a 40-acre facility
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/ July 29, 2026
Guardians of the Galaxy: Cosmic Rewind opened on May 27, 2022, inside EPCOT’s World Discovery area at Walt Disney World Resort in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it became EPCOT’s first roller coaster and Disney’s first backwards-launched roller coaster, replacing the
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/ July 29, 2026
Tron Lightcycle/Run is a launched steel roller coaster at Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World, themed around the light cycles from Disney’s Tron film franchise. Riders straddle motorbike-style vehicles and lean forward to grip handlebars as they race through a partially enclosed track meant to
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/ July 28, 2026
Project Purple is Bakunawa: a 382-foot, 100-mph spinning launch coaster with the world’s first upside-down launch, opening 2027 at Six Flags Great Adventure. Watch the official POV and teaser.
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/ July 28, 2026
Universal Studios Hollywood’s long-awaited Fast & Furious: Hollywood Drift began technical rehearsals on Monday, July 27, 2026, giving park guests their first chance to ride the attraction ahead of its official grand opening. The soft opening was confirmed by multiple outlets, including WDW News Today,
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/ July 28, 2026
Charlotte Motor Speedway opened on June 15, 1960, just outside Charlotte in Concord, North Carolina, and quickly became one of NASCAR’s marquee venues. Built in under a year for roughly $2 million, the 1.5-mile quad-oval overcame a rocky start, including surface problems at its debut
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/ July 28, 2026
Talladega Superspeedway is the fastest, rowdiest track on the NASCAR calendar, a 2.66-mile Alabama tri-oval where 40-car packs run three and four wide at nearly 200 mph and one bad move can collect half the field. Built by NASCAR founder Bill France Sr. as a
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/ July 28, 2026
The Warner Theatre has anchored downtown Washington, D.C.’s entertainment district for a century, hosting everything from 1920s vaudeville bills to Rolling Stones concerts and Frank Sinatra’s farewell D.C. performance. It opened in 1924 as the Earle Theatre and was renamed the Warner in 1947, and
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/ July 28, 2026
The Uptown Theater in Kansas City, Missouri opened on January 6, 1928, first as a movie palace before becoming one of the city’s premier live music venues. Designed by Robert Gornall and completed by renowned atmospheric-theater architect John Eberson, the building recreates an outdoor Mediterranean
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/ July 28, 2026
The Academy of Music at 240 South Broad Street is the anchor of Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts — a gilded, horseshoe-shaped opera house that has hosted performances continuously since its opening night in January 1857, making it the oldest opera house in the United
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/ July 28, 2026
Franklin Park Zoo has welcomed visitors to the Dorchester section of Boston since it first opened on October 4, 1912, making it one of the oldest zoos in the United States still in operation today. Set within the northeastern portion of Franklin Park, a landscape
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/ July 28, 2026
Perched on the slopes of Cheyenne Mountain southwest of downtown Colorado Springs, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is the only zoo in the United States built directly into a mountainside — and, at 6,714 feet above sea level, the highest-elevation zoo in the country. Walkways zigzag up
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/ July 28, 2026
The ABQ BioPark Zoo has been a fixture of Albuquerque, New Mexico since 1927, when it opened along the banks of the Rio Grande as the Rio Grande Zoo. Nearly a century later, it remains one of the state’s top attractions, part of the larger
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/ July 28, 2026
Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster is an indoor launched roller coaster on Sunset Boulevard at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World Resort. Built by Vekoma with Walt Disney Imagineering, the ride opened on July 29, 1999 as Rock ‘n’ Roller Coaster Starring Aerosmith, using a
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/ July 28, 2026
Space Mountain opened at Disneyland in Anaheim, California on May 27, 1977, becoming the second roller coaster ever built at the park and the second version of Disney’s space-themed coaster concept, following the original at Walt Disney World’s Magic Kingdom in 1975. Designed by Walt
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/ July 27, 2026
Bad Bunny closed out his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour on July 22 with a final stadium show at King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Belgium, capping a 55-date global run that became the highest-grossing tour ever by a Latin artist. According to Billboard Boxscore
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/ July 27, 2026
Honda Center is a multi-purpose arena in Anaheim, California, located about three miles from Disneyland at 2695 East Katella Avenue. It opened on June 17, 1993, with an inaugural concert by Barry Manilow, and has served as the home of the Anaheim Ducks of the
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/ July 27, 2026
Severance Hall opened on February 5, 1931, in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood as a purpose-built home for The Cleveland Orchestra, which had spent its first twelve years performing in borrowed spaces like Grays Armory and the Masonic Auditorium. Businessman John L. Severance funded the roughly
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/ July 27, 2026
The Orpheum Theatre sits at 1 Hamilton Place in downtown Boston, tucked into a narrow alley just off Tremont Street across from Park Street Church, and ranks among the oldest surviving theaters in the United States. It opened in 1852 as the Boston Music Hall,
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