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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
Camp Randall Stadium on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison has been the home of Badgers football since it opened on October 6, 1917. Architect Arthur Peabody designed it for about $15,000, on grounds that served as a Union Army training camp in the…
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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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/ June 28, 2026
Sports venues around the world hit the news hard this week, from a landmark $2.1 billion NFL ribbon-cutting in Buffalo to the FIFA World Cup’s knockout stage igniting sports venues from New Jersey to California. Whether you track new construction, fan-experience tech, or landmark sporting…
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/ June 28, 2026
Live music news delivered an electrifying week of long-awaited comeback tours, arena-scale expansions, a landmark streaming-to-ticketing integration, and pivotal legislation poised to reshape how California fans buy concert tickets. From dormant emo legends staging a 20th-anniversary revival to an R&B superstar extending a record-breaking arena…
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/ June 28, 2026
This week’s theme park news delivered a genuine rollercoaster of surprises — a record-shattering coaster postponed just days before its debut, a beloved 36-year-old Georgia park announcing its final season, Universal’s newest resort entering preview mode in Texas, and spectacular drone shows lighting up summer…
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/ June 28, 2026
Waterworld California was the name Bay Area families knew this Concord water park by for roughly a decade, and if you’re searching for it today, the short answer is reassuring: the park never closed. It’s still running every summer, at the same address, just under…
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/ June 28, 2026
Wild Waters was a beloved 6-acre water park in Silver Springs, Florida, opening on April 28, 1978. Built by ABC Television as a sister attraction to the adjacent Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, it ranked among the first parks in the American South to use…
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/ June 28, 2026
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay is a 335-acre Africa-themed park in Tampa, Florida, that doubles as one of the region’s premier accredited zoos. Opened on March 31, 1959, as a hospitality attraction for the Anheuser-Busch brewery, it evolved over decades into a full-scale theme park featuring…
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/ June 28, 2026
SeaWorld San Antonio opened on May 27, 1988, in the Westover Hills District of San Antonio, Texas, and quickly established itself as North America’s largest marine-life theme park across 416 acres. Built for $170 million by Harcourt, Brace and Jovanovich, the park drew 75,000 visitors…
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/ June 28, 2026
The United Palace sits at 4140 Broadway in Washington Heights, Manhattan, occupying one of New York City’s most spectacular theatrical spaces. Designed by architect Thomas W. Lamb and opened on February 22, 1930, it began life as Loew’s 175th Street Theatre, one of five celebrated…
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/ June 28, 2026
Exit/In is Nashville’s longest-running rock club, a 500-capacity room at 2208 Elliston Place that has been putting bands within arm’s reach of the crowd since 1971. It’s the kind of venue where the size of the room is part of the story: small enough that…
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