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/ August 16, 2026
Dublin Zoo opened its gates in Phoenix Park on 1 September 1831, a year after the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin was founded at a meeting in the Rotunda Hospital in May 1830. The grounds were laid out by Decimus Burton, the celebrated architect who
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/ August 16, 2026
The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes opened on 11 December 1794 inside Paris’s famous botanical garden, making it the second-oldest zoological garden in the world — only Vienna’s Tiergarten Schönbrunn is older. It was created in the turmoil of the French Revolution, largely stocked with
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 largest aquariums in the world by total water volume — the standard measure for comparing them — covering facilities open to the public as of August 2026, with every figure checked against current sources. Where totals effectively tie, the aquarium
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/ August 16, 2026
No stadium in South America is bigger, and few anywhere are louder. The Estadio Más Monumental — historically the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, and forever “El Monumental” to Argentines — is the 85,018-seat home of Club Atlético River Plate and the Argentina national team
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the tallest water slides in the world that are actually operating as of August 2026 — body, mat, and tube slides all count, ranked by published slide height and verified ride-by-ride. Slides that no longer exist don’t make the cut, no matter
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/ August 16, 2026
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a 4.361-kilometer motorsport circuit built on Notre Dame Island in the Saint Lawrence River, within Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. It opened on October 6, 1978 as the Île Notre-Dame Circuit and was renamed in 1982 to honor Canadian Formula One driver Gilles
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/ August 16, 2026
In the desert 25 kilometers west of Alexandria stands the stage for one of African football’s most emotional nights. Borg El Arab Stadium — an 86,000-seat colossus beside the Cairo–Alexandria desert highway — is Egypt’s second largest stadium and the third largest in Africa, and
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/ August 16, 2026
The Palais Theatre has stood on the St Kilda foreshore since 1927, when it opened as the Palais Pictures, a grand movie palace designed by architect Henry Eli White. Sitting beside Luna Park along Melbourne’s Lower Esplanade, it quickly became an anchor of the bayside
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/ August 16, 2026
When Malaysia wants to make noise, it comes to Bukit Jalil. The Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur is the largest stadium in Southeast Asia, a bowl of roughly 87,411 seats beneath a sweeping white membrane roof that has hosted Commonwealth Games ceremonies, SEA
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/ August 16, 2026
The Oregon Coast Aquarium sits along Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon, where it has introduced visitors to the marine life of the Pacific Northwest since opening on May 23, 1992. Spread across 23 acres, the AZA-accredited facility blends indoor galleries with outdoor habitats that mirror
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/ August 16, 2026
Shimmering like a golden bowl in the desert 20 kilometers north of Doha, Lusail Stadium is the crown jewel of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup build-out — and the stage for what many call the greatest World Cup final ever played. With 88,966 seats it is
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/ August 16, 2026
Lahore Zoo, on Mall Road in Lahore, Punjab, was established in 1872 and is one of the largest zoos in Pakistan — and by founding date one of the oldest zoos anywhere in the world. It began as a small aviary donated by Lala Mela
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/ August 16, 2026
The Mulhouse Zoological & Botanical Park (Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse) was created in 1868 by a group of philanthropist industrialists led by Charles Thierry-Mieg, on the wooded Rebberg heights at the edge of the Tannenwald forest in Alsace, France. More than 150 years
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/ August 16, 2026
Shark Reef Aquarium sits inside Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip, giving visitors a walk-through look at one of the largest collections of sharks in the United States. Opened on June 20, 2000, after a $40 million construction investment, the 105,000-square-foot facility was
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/ August 16, 2026
Egypt built the pyramids; in 2024 it opened a stadium crowned like a queen. Misr Stadium — Arabic for “Egypt Stadium,” and also known as the New Capital Stadium — is the centerpiece of the Egypt International Olympic City in the country’s New Administrative Capital,
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/ August 16, 2026
The Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden (Fővárosi Állat- és Növénykert) opened on 9 August 1866, making it the oldest zoo in Hungary and one of the oldest in the world. Uniquely for a major zoo, it sits inside the City Park in the very center
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest roller coasters in ThrillZing’s database by the year they opened, from the earliest survivors of the wood-and-side-friction era up through the late 1920s, right before steel-braced ‘racer’ and ‘twister’ designs took over the industry. Every entry here has kept
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/ August 16, 2026
Karlsruhe Zoo — formally the Zoologischer Stadtgarten Karlsruhe — opened in 1865, making it one of the oldest zoos in Germany. It is an unusual hybrid: a zoo and a landscaped city garden fused into one enclosed park in the heart of Karlsruhe, stretching between
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/ August 16, 2026
On the edge of Soweto in Johannesburg stands Africa’s largest stadium — a giant vessel of fire-colored mosaic panels known officially as FNB Stadium, and affectionately as Soccer City or “The Calabash.” Rebuilt for the 2010 FIFA World Cup with a design inspired by the
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/ August 16, 2026
Leningrad Zoo opened in 1865 in Alexander Park on St. Petersburg’s Petrogradskaya Storona, founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt as a private zoological garden. It is one of the oldest zoos in Russia and the most northerly of the country’s major zoos, and today it
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