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/ September 3, 2026
The Gorge Amphitheatre may be the most spectacular place on Earth to see a concert: a 27,500-capacity hillside in George, Washington, where the stage sits against a sheer canyon of the Columbia River and the sun sets directly behind the headliner. Since opening in 1986
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/ September 3, 2026
Bakken — formally Dyrehavsbakken, ‘the hill by the deer park’ — is the oldest operating amusement park on Earth. Crowds began gathering here in 1583, drawn by a natural spring, and the entertainers, food stalls, and rides never left. It sits in a royal deer
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/ September 3, 2026
The public aquarium is a Victorian invention that never went out of style. This list ranks the 20 oldest aquariums in the world that are still open to visitors in 2026, by the year they first admitted the public — each one verified as operating
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/ September 3, 2026
How big can a zoo get? Big enough that you tour it by safari truck and can’t see the far fence. This list ranks the 25 largest zoos and safari parks in the world by total land area in acres, using figures verified against each
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/ September 3, 2026
The oldest amusement park on Earth opened while Shakespeare was alive. This list ranks the 25 oldest amusement parks still operating in 2026 by the year they opened, from ThrillZing’s venue database — every one of them still sells tickets today. Bakken (Dyrehavsbakken), in the
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/ September 3, 2026
Stadium tours borrow football fields, but these places were built for music. This list ranks the 25 biggest dedicated live-music venues — amphitheaters, concert arenas, and halls — by their maximum concert capacity, using the verified figures in ThrillZing’s venue database. Stadiums that merely host
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/ September 3, 2026
Which park should a coaster counter visit first? This ranking counts every operating roller coaster park by park — audited against ride databases in September 2026, so there are no defunct rides, no standing-but-closed giants, and no water slides. Just coasters you can actually ride.
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/ September 3, 2026
The 2020s have already produced the fastest roller coaster ever built. This list ranks the 25 fastest coasters that opened from 2020 onward, by top speed, using the verified stats in ThrillZing’s coaster database — every ride on it is operating today. The headline act
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/ September 3, 2026
A decade of venue-building, ranked newest first — the 25 most recently opened major stadiums, arenas, and halls in ThrillZing’s venue database, led by the Intuit Dome, the LA Clippers’ $2 billion home that opened in Inglewood in 2024. The list captures a genuine boom.
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/ September 3, 2026
Every NHL home arena ranked by capacity — all 32 buildings, from ThrillZing’s venue database. Hockey arenas are the most standardized venues in major-league sports, which makes the outliers at both ends all the more interesting. The United Center in Chicago tops the list at
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/ September 3, 2026
All 30 NBA home arenas ranked by capacity, pulled straight from ThrillZing’s venue database. The spread is tighter than in any other major league — arenas are built to a formula — but the top and bottom still stand almost 7,000 seats apart. The United
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/ September 3, 2026
Every big-league ballpark ranked by seating capacity, straight from ThrillZing’s venue database — all 30 current MLB home parks, from the biggest bowl in baseball down to the temporary home the Athletics are filling in Sacramento. The headline hasn’t changed in decades: Dodger Stadium holds
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/ September 3, 2026
Brooklyn Bowl opened on July 7, 2009, at 61 Wythe Avenue in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, inside the former Hecla Iron Works building. Founded by Peter Shapiro, the former proprietor of the Tribeca club Wetlands Preserve, along with Charley Ryan and brothers
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/ September 3, 2026
Dolby Live is a concert theater inside Park MGM on the Las Vegas Strip, built as part of the $90 million redevelopment of the former Monte Carlo Resort and Casino. It opened on December 17, 2016, as Park Theater with an inaugural performance by Stevie
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/ September 3, 2026
Steinhart Aquarium opened its doors in Golden Gate Park on September 29, 1923, drawing more than 5,000 visitors on its very first day. Named for benefactor Ignatz Steinhart, it quickly became one of the country’s premier aquariums, earning early distinctions as the first public aquarium
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/ September 3, 2026
Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium sits next to the Bass Pro Shops flagship store in Springfield, Missouri, pairing a sprawling wildlife museum with a massive aquarium under one roof. Founded by Bass Pro Shops’ Johnny Morris and opened on September 22, 2017, the
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/ September 3, 2026
Australia Zoo sits in Beerwah, Queensland, on the Sunshine Coast, roughly an hour’s drive north of Brisbane. What began in 1970 as a small reptile park run by Bob and Lyn Irwin grew into one of the country’s best-known wildlife attractions after their son, Steve
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/ September 3, 2026
Here are today’s 11 verified theme park & live event stories, covering Theme Parks & Roller Coasters, Stadiums & Arenas and Live Music & Venues. Every item below links to its original source. The TLDR Theme Parks & Roller Coasters Marineland Canada Completes Beluga Whale
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/ September 3, 2026
Texas Cyclone was a wooden roller coaster that opened on June 12, 1976, at Six Flags AstroWorld in Houston, Texas. It was built as a near mirror-image tribute to the original Coney Island Cyclone in New York, after AstroWorld’s operators decided it would be too
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/ September 2, 2026
Mestalla Stadium has stood at the heart of Valencia CF since May 20, 1923, making it one of the oldest top-flight football grounds still in regular use in Spain. Officially known as Estadio de Mestalla, it takes its name from a centuries-old irrigation canal that
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