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/ June 30, 2026
The Auditorium Theatre in Chicago seats roughly 3,875 people today, spread across four levels beneath one of the most celebrated ceilings in American architecture. That makes it one of the largest indoor concert halls in the United States — smaller than its original 1889 count…
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/ June 30, 2026
Xcel Energy Center opened on September 29, 2000, at 199 Kellogg Boulevard West in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, and quickly became one of the Upper Midwest’s premier live entertainment destinations. Built at a cost of approximately $170 million and designed by HOK Sport (now Populous)…
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/ June 30, 2026
Roosevelt Stadium stood at Droyer’s Point in Jersey City, New Jersey, as one of the finest minor league ballparks of its era. Built with $1.5 million in federal Works Progress Administration funds and designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler in the Art Deco style, the…
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/ June 30, 2026
Washington Park was the collective name for three successive Major League Baseball stadiums built on two adjacent sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The grounds took their name from George Washington, whose…
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/ June 30, 2026
London Stadium sits at the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, roughly six miles from the city centre. Opened on 5 May 2012, it was purpose-built as the centrepiece of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, hosting the athletics…
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/ June 30, 2026
Amalie Arena opened on October 20, 1996, as the Ice Palace in the Channelside District of Downtown Tampa, Florida. Built at a cost of approximately $139 million and owned by Hillsborough County, the 19,092-seat multipurpose arena became the permanent home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay…
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/ June 30, 2026
Nemesis at Alton Towers is the ride that changed British theme parks forever — an inverted steel coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard that plunges riders into a man-made ravine, weaves through rock walls, and flips them upside down four times in just 80 seconds. Since…
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/ June 30, 2026
Standing 174 feet above the Palatinate countryside, Expedition GeForce is the tallest and fastest ride at Plopsaland Deutschland — and one of the most decorated steel roller coasters ever built. Since opening in 2001, this Intamin mega coaster has paired an 82-degree first drop with…
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/ June 29, 2026
Raging Waters Sacramento once packed 25 water attractions onto 20 acres of the Cal Expo fairgrounds, but the gates have been locked since November 2022 — and the plan to bring it back has now fallen apart too. If you’re trying to figure out whether…
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/ June 29, 2026
Raging Waters Los Angeles in San Dimas has been Southern California’s go-to summer soak for over four decades, and the basics — when it’s open, what a ticket costs, and which slides are worth the wait — change enough from year to year that it’s…
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/ June 29, 2026
Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, traces its roots to 1920 when Walter Knott began selling berries from a roadside stand. By 1934 his wife Cordelia had opened a fried chicken restaurant that drew crowds from across Southern California, and Walter soon began building…
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/ June 29, 2026
Busch Gardens Williamsburg opened on May 16, 1975, on 422 acres in James City County, Virginia, just minutes from Colonial Williamsburg. Originally branded as ‘Busch Gardens: The Old Country,’ the park was designed around European-themed hamlets representing England, Scotland, France, Germany, Ireland, and Italy…
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/ June 29, 2026
Tokyo Dome, nicknamed “The Big Egg,” is Japan’s largest indoor concert venue and the benchmark by which every arena tour in the country is measured. Its capacity is the single most-asked question by fans trying to picture just how massive a sold-out show there really…
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/ June 29, 2026
Rising above Broadway in Downtown Oakland, the Paramount Theatre is one of the finest surviving Art Deco theaters in the United States and one of the Bay Area’s most instantly recognizable landmarks. Opened in 1931 and lovingly restored in the early 1970s, it remains a…
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/ June 29, 2026
Feethams was one of English football’s strangest grounds. For 120 years, anyone heading to watch Darlington F.C. had to pass through a set of Twin Towers, then walk the full perimeter of a working cricket outfield just to reach the terracing behind the goal…
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/ June 29, 2026
Fellows Park was a football stadium on Hilary Street in Walsall, England, that served as the home of Walsall F.C. for 94 years, from 1896 to 1990. Originally known simply as Hilary Street, the ground was renamed in 1930 to honour H.L. Fellows, a longstanding…
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/ June 29, 2026
Situated on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Camp Randall Stadium has been the beating heart of Badgers football since it opened on November 3, 1917. Designed by architect Arthur Peabody at a cost of just $15,000, the stadium was built on grounds that…
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/ June 29, 2026
EverBank Stadium sits on the banks of the St. Johns River in downtown Jacksonville, Florida, serving as the home of the NFL’s Jacksonville Jaguars since the franchise’s inaugural 1995 season. Built on the site of the old Gator Bowl Stadium and completed in under 20…
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/ June 29, 2026
Silver Star has been Europa-Park’s signature thrill ride since 2002, and even with dozens of newer coasters built across Europe since then, it still delivers one of the biggest first drops and longest stretches of airtime you’ll find in Germany. At 73 metres tall with…
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/ June 29, 2026
Blue Fire Megacoaster opened at Europa-Park in Rust, Germany, on April 4, 2009, and quickly earned its place among Europe’s most celebrated launched roller coasters. Built by Mack Rides — the storied family-owned manufacturer based in nearby Waldkirch — it was the company’s very first…
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