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/ August 7, 2026
The National Aquarium opened on August 8, 1981, at Pier 3 on Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, transforming a stretch of declining waterfront into one of the city’s signature attractions. Congress designated it the country’s national aquarium in 1979, even though it was built without federal funding…
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/ August 7, 2026
Thunderbolt is a steel roller coaster at Luna Park in Coney Island, Brooklyn, that opened to riders on June 14, 2014. Built by Italian manufacturer Zamperla at a cost of roughly $9 million, it borrowed its name from a beloved wooden coaster that thrilled Coney…
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/ August 6, 2026
Smithsonian’s National Zoo in Washington, D.C. has named its two newest residents Han and Solo — a pair of bat-eared fox kits born to first-time parents Ziggy and Lando, and the first of their species born at the zoo in 75 years. Keepers announced the…
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/ August 6, 2026
Frost Bank Center is the home arena of the San Antonio Spurs, standing on the city’s east side next to Freeman Coliseum. It opened on October 18, 2002, as the SBC Center, was renamed AT&T Center in 2006 after SBC’s rebrand, and took on its…
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/ August 6, 2026
If you knew this downtown Phoenix arena as Footprint Center, you’re not behind the times – the building really did change names again. The materials-science company’s naming-rights deal ended in early 2025, the arena briefly played games as simply “PHX Arena,” and by late 2025…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Regency Ballroom is a mid-sized concert hall in San Francisco’s Van Ness/Polk Gulch neighborhood, occupying a Neoclassical/Beaux-Arts building originally constructed in 1909 as a Scottish Rite Masonic temple designed by architect Albert Roller. After decades as a movie theater, the building reopened as the…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Warfield has spent more than a century as one of Market Street’s landmark stages, first as a 1920s vaudeville and movie palace and, since 1979, as one of San Francisco’s most storied concert halls. Bob Dylan, the Grateful Dead, Slayer, and Dream Theater have…
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/ August 6, 2026
Brooklyn Steel is a live music venue in the East Williamsburg section of Brooklyn, New York, occupying a converted steel manufacturing plant at 319 Frost Street. Built out between July 2016 and March 2017 by The Bowery Presents, the room gives concertgoers an industrial-chic alternative…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Shedd Aquarium opened on May 30, 1930, on Chicago’s lakefront as a gift from retail executive John G. Shedd to the city. Housed in a Beaux Arts building designed by Graham, Anderson, Probst & White, it holds the distinction of being the first inland…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Calgary Zoo opened on January 9, 1929, and has grown into one of Canada’s premier wildlife attractions, spread across 125 acres on St. George’s Island in the Bow River in the Bridgeland neighborhood of Calgary, Alberta. Operated by the Wilder Institute, the zoo is…
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/ August 6, 2026
The Toronto Zoo opened on August 15, 1974, in Scarborough, Ontario, replacing the much smaller Riverdale Zoo that had served the city since the 1890s. Spread across roughly 710 acres (287 hectares) along the Rouge River valley, it is Canada’s largest zoo by area and…
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/ August 6, 2026
Hades 360 is a wooden roller coaster at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin. It opened on May 14, 2005, simply as “Hades,” built by The Gravity Group, and quickly earned attention as one of the tallest and fastest wooden coasters…
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/ August 6, 2026
Steel Hawg is a steel roller coaster at Indiana Beach in Monticello, Indiana, notable as the first El Loco model ever built by manufacturer S&S Worldwide (now S&S – Sansei Technologies). Designed by Alan Schilke, the compact but intense ride opened to the public on…
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/ August 5, 2026
Taronga Zoo overlooks Sydney Harbour from the suburb of Mosman, offering one of the most scenic zoo settings in the world. Opened at its current harbourside site on October 7, 1916, after relocating from an earlier home at Moore Park, the zoo takes its name…
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/ August 5, 2026
BTS is headlining two sold-out shows at Gillette Stadium on August 5 and 6, 2026, marking the first time a K-pop act has ever performed a headline concert in the Boston area. The stops in Foxborough, Massachusetts, are part of the group’s BTS World Tour…
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/ August 5, 2026
Gaylord Family Oklahoma Memorial Stadium has hosted University of Oklahoma football on Owen Field since October 20, 1923, growing from a 16,000-seat memorial to Oklahoma’s World War I dead into an 80,000-plus-seat fortress fans call “The Palace on the Prairie.” Whether you’re heading to Norman…
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/ August 5, 2026
Variety Playhouse is one of Atlanta’s most beloved mid-sized concert rooms, tucked inside a converted 1940s movie theater on Euclid Avenue in the heart of Little Five Points. If you’re checking how many people it holds before buying tickets, or trying to pin down exactly…
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/ August 5, 2026
The Fillmore Detroit is a 1920s movie palace at 2115 Woodward Avenue in Detroit’s Theatre District, next to the Fox Theatre. It now runs as one of Live Nation’s mid-sized concert halls, where touring acts play under ornate terra cotta and plasterwork instead of a…
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/ August 5, 2026
Newport Music Hall sits at 1722 North High Street in Columbus, Ohio’s University District, directly across from Ohio State University’s Ohio Union. The building first opened its doors on December 21, 1921, as The State Theater, making it one of the oldest continuously operating concert…
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/ August 5, 2026
Auckland Zoo has welcomed visitors to Western Springs since December 16, 1922, when it opened with animals purchased from a private collector’s shuttered menagerie. Run today by Auckland Council through Auckland Unlimited, the 16.35-hectare (40-acre) park has grown from a modest municipal collection into New…
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