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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 the wooden racing roller coaster that opened Kings Island itself on April 29, 1972 — and more than five decades later, its twin Blue and Red trains are still launching side by side across Coney Mall for a photo-finish sprint to the…
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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 hosted everything from Olympic track and field to…
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/ July 16, 2026
Tucked in a basement at 100 Oxford Street in London, the 100 Club has been hosting live music since 24 October 1942, when it opened as a Sunday night jazz venue called the Feldman Swing Club. It took its current name in 1964, after Roger…
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/ July 16, 2026
Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club is a long-running jazz venue in the Soho district of London, founded on October 30, 1959, by saxophonists Ronnie Scott and Pete King. It began life in a basement at 39 Gerrard Street before moving in 1965 to its present home…
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/ July 16, 2026
Preservation Hall is a jazz club at 726 St. Peter Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, housed in a building dating back to around 1750 that once served as a residence, tavern, and art gallery. In the 1950s, art dealer Larry Borenstein began…
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/ July 16, 2026
Zoo Atlanta traces its roots to 1889, when local businessman George V. Gress purchased the animals from a bankrupt traveling circus and donated them to the city of Atlanta, laying the foundation for what would become one of the Southeast’s premier animal parks. Set within…
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/ July 16, 2026
The Philadelphia Zoo holds the distinction of being America’s first zoo, chartered by the Zoological Society of Philadelphia in 1859 and finally opening its gates on July 1, 1874, after the Civil War delayed construction. More than 3,000 visitors turned out on opening day to…
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/ July 16, 2026
Woodland Park Zoo sits in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, occupying 92 acres that once formed part of a private estate belonging to lumber mill owner Guy C. Phinney. After Phinney’s death, his widow sold the 188-acre Woodland Park to the City of Seattle in 1899…
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/ July 16, 2026
Exterminator is an indoor spinning roller coaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Built by French manufacturer Reverchon Industries and opened on April 18, 1999, it was Kennywood’s first indoor coaster and remains one of the more unusual attractions in the historic park’s…
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/ July 16, 2026
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that opened to the public on July 13, 2019. Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, the ride was built on the site of the former Log…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor in Queensbury, New York, with a history that stretches back to a demolished Ontario amusement park. Its structural steel originated from the Crystal Beach Cyclone, which opened in 1927 at…
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