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/ August 16, 2026
When Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan opened on the Tempozan waterfront in 1990, it was the largest public aquarium on the planet. More than three decades later, the building with the fish-mosaic facade is still one of Japan’s defining aquariums — a vertical journey that starts in
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/ August 16, 2026
The Moskvarium — formally the Center of Oceanography and Marine Biology — opened on August 5, 2015, on the grounds of VDNH, Moscow’s sprawling Soviet-era exhibition park, right beside the landmark Cosmos pavilion. With about 25 million litres of water inside a 53,000-square-metre complex, it
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/ August 16, 2026
The tallest water slide in North America isn’t at a Disney or Universal park — it’s in Wisconsin Dells. The Fall crowns the Icarus Tower at Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park, dropping riders from 145 ft (44.2 m). It opened in summer 2024 as
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/ August 16, 2026
Hurricane Tower at 88°C Spring Water World in Xianyang, China, stands 147.6 ft (45 m) tall — tied with Luzhou’s Hurricane for the title of tallest water slide in China. It opened in 2016, one year after its western-China counterpart, at exactly the same height.
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/ August 16, 2026
Hurricane at Merry Pi Beach Park in Luzhou, in China’s Sichuan region, is the tallest water slide in China at 147.6 ft (45 m). It opened in 2015 — one year after Kansas City’s Verrückt reset the world record, and squarely in the era when
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/ August 16, 2026
Golden Wing Spiral is the second of the twin water slides The Land of Legends in Antalya, Türkiye opened for 2026 on its new Dragonfly Tower, standing at a listed height of roughly 167 ft (about 51 m). As the name suggests, it takes the
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/ August 16, 2026
Stukas BOOM is the legend of Caneva Aquapark: twin free-fall body slides plunging roughly 32 meters (105 ft) on the shore of Lake Garda — and since its modern refit, the drop begins with a trapdoor opening beneath your feet. It closes out our list
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/ August 16, 2026
Emerald Blur is one of the two headline water slides The Land of Legends in Antalya, Türkiye added for 2026 — twin slides descending from the park’s new Dragonfly Tower at a listed height of roughly 167 ft (about 51 m). That figure would place
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/ August 16, 2026
The Géant is the tower that dominates Wave Island in Monteux, Provence: a 33-meter (108.3 ft) free-fall speed slide, among the tallest water slides ever built in Europe. Opened in 2015 with the park itself, it ranks #24 on our list of the tallest water
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/ August 16, 2026
Jumeirah Sceirah is Dubai’s most famous drop: twin trapdoor slides falling from roughly 32–33 meters (106–108 ft) at Wild Wadi Water Park, in the shadow of the Burj Al Arab. Riders hit speeds up to 80 km/h (50 mph), and Wild Wadi bills it as
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/ August 16, 2026
Long before Qatar built slides off the side of a skyscraper, the scariest water slide on Earth sat on a hillside in rural Brazil. Kilimanjaro, at Aldeia das Águas Park Resort in Barra do Piraí, Rio de Janeiro state, drops 163.7 ft (49.9 m) down
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/ August 16, 2026
The Fractionator at Meryal Waterpark in Lusail, Qatar starts higher than any enclosed water slide in history — 250 ft 4 in (76.3 m) up the park’s Icon Tower. Together with Vertigo, the trapdoor slide beside it, it holds the Guinness World Records title for
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/ August 16, 2026
High Extreme is the ride that towers over Raging Waters Los Angeles: a pair of 600-foot mat-racing flumes launched from 109 feet up, ridden head-first at speeds up to 35 mph. Opened in 1997, it ranks #22 on our list of the tallest water slides
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/ August 16, 2026
The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium opened in 1992 on the waterfront of Japan’s busiest port, in Minato Ward, Nagoya. Three decades on, it is the largest aquarium in Japan by both total tank capacity and floor area — roughly 27 million litres of water
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/ August 16, 2026
When Meryal Waterpark opened in Lusail, Qatar in 2023, it didn’t just edge past the world water slide record — it demolished it. Vertigo launches from the top of the park’s Icon Tower at 250 ft 4 in (76.3 m), making it the tallest water
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/ August 16, 2026
Cyclón is the slide that put Aqualandia back on the record boards: a 36-meter (118 ft) tower drop feeding a 200-meter raft run that ends inside a 20-meter-wide funnel. The Benidorm park added it in 2019, and it ranks #21 on our list of the
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/ August 16, 2026
Summit Plummet is the most famous water slide in America: a 120-foot free-fall body slide styled as a ski jump, dropping off the top of Mount Gushmore at Disney’s Blizzard Beach in Orlando. When it opened with the park on April 1, 1995, it was
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/ August 16, 2026
Deep Water Dive is the slide that made Kentucky Kingdom’s 2014 comeback impossible to ignore: a 121-foot ProSlide drop body slide where the floor quite literally disappears from under you. It ranks #19 on our list of the tallest water slides in the world. Part
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/ August 16, 2026
Scary Falls is the slide Caribe Bay saves for its bravest guests: a 38-meter (124.7 ft) plunge taken in complete darkness. The Italian park in Jesolo, on the Adriatic coast near Venice, bills it simply — launch yourself into the darkness and find out what
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/ August 16, 2026
Chengdu sits about as far from the ocean as a major Chinese city can, more than 1,500 kilometers from the nearest coast. That did not stop it from building the Cube Oceanarium, an 11-million-liter aquarium that briefly owned one of the aquarium world’s most coveted
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