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/ July 1, 2026
Six Flags Fiesta Texas opened on March 14, 1992, in the La Cantera area of San Antonio, built into the dramatic rock walls of the former Redland Quarry, which had been mined for limestone until the late 1980s. That quarry setting still defines the park
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/ July 1, 2026
Six Flags Great America is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2026, marking five decades since it opened as Marriott’s Great America on May 29, 1976. Sitting on 275 acres in Gurnee, Illinois, roughly halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, it’s the largest amusement park in Illinois
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/ July 1, 2026
Smoothie King Center is the 17,805-seat arena in downtown New Orleans that has hosted three NBA All-Star Games, hundreds of concerts, and every New Orleans Pelicans home game for more than two decades. Opened in 1999 as New Orleans Arena, it remains one of the
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/ July 1, 2026
T-Mobile Arena opened on April 6, 2016, on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, as a $375 million joint venture between MGM Resorts International and Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). Situated steps behind the New York-New York and Park MGM casino hotels, the arena established
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/ July 1, 2026
Municipal Stadium stood at 2123 Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city’s sports fans for nearly five decades under four different names. Originally built in 1923 as Muehlebach Field for $400,000, the park became the heart of Kansas City athletics, hosting minor league
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/ July 1, 2026
Sicks’ Stadium opened on June 15, 1938, in Seattle’s Rainier Valley as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Named after Emil Sick, the Rainier Brewing Company owner who financed its construction, the ballpark originally seated around 11,000 fans and became
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/ July 1, 2026
Twickenham Stadium, situated in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is the world’s largest rugby union stadium and the spiritual home of English rugby. The Rugby Football Union purchased the site in 1907 for £5,572 — land that had previously served as a market
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/ July 1, 2026
The Smiler is a steel Infinity Coaster built by Gerstlauer at Alton Towers Resort in Staffordshire, England, and it opened on 31 May 2013. From its debut, the ride claimed the world record for the most inversions on any roller coaster — a total of
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/ July 1, 2026
Oblivion opened at Alton Towers in Staffordshire, England on 14 March 1998 as the world’s first dive coaster and the first roller coaster to feature a near-vertical drop. Designed by Bolliger & Mabillard and engineer Werner Stengel, it was marketed as the ‘world’s first vertical
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/ June 30, 2026
Soak City is the 35-acre water park inside Kings Island in Mason, Ohio, and it’s included free with every Kings Island ticket and season pass — no separate water park admission required. With 36 water slides, two wave pools, a lazy river, a dual-racing water
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/ June 30, 2026
If you’ve been searching for “Soak City” at Cedar Point and coming up confused, here’s the short version: it’s still there, it’s just wearing a new name. The water park that opened on Lake Erie’s shoreline in 1988 is now Cedar Point Shores, and it’s
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/ June 30, 2026
Six Flags Over Georgia packs 11 operating roller coasters (plus a 12th, Georgia Gold Rusher, temporarily closed for the 2026 season), a full-size water park, and almost six decades of theme-park history into 290 acres just west of Atlanta — but figuring out which coasters
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/ June 30, 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure opened on July 1, 1974, in Jackson Township, New Jersey, conceived by restaurateur and showman Warner LeRoy as a sprawling entertainment complex he called Great Adventure. LeRoy—grandson of Warner Bros. co-founder Harry Warner—envisioned seven distinct parks on a single property. Six
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/ June 30, 2026
The Auditorium Theatre opened on December 9, 1889, at 50 E. Ida B. Wells Drive in Chicago, Illinois, the product of architects Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan — with a young Frank Lloyd Wright working in their office at the time. Commissioned by businessman Ferdinand
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/ June 30, 2026
Xcel Energy Center opened on September 29, 2000, at 199 Kellogg Boulevard West in downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota, and quickly became one of the Upper Midwest’s premier live entertainment destinations. Built at a cost of approximately $170 million and designed by HOK Sport (now Populous),
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/ June 30, 2026
Roosevelt Stadium stood at Droyer’s Point in Jersey City, New Jersey, as one of the finest minor league ballparks of its era. Built with $1.5 million in federal Works Progress Administration funds and designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler in the Art Deco style, the
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/ June 30, 2026
Washington Park was the collective name for three successive Major League Baseball stadiums built on two adjacent sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The grounds took their name from George Washington, whose
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/ June 30, 2026
London Stadium sits at the heart of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford, east London, roughly six miles from the city centre. Opened on 5 May 2012, it was purpose-built as the centrepiece of the London 2012 Summer Olympics and Paralympics, hosting the athletics
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/ June 30, 2026
Amalie Arena opened on October 20, 1996, as the Ice Palace in the Channelside District of Downtown Tampa, Florida. Built at a cost of approximately $139 million and owned by Hillsborough County, the 19,092-seat multipurpose arena became the permanent home of the NHL’s Tampa Bay
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/ June 30, 2026
Nemesis at Alton Towers is the ride that changed British theme parks forever — an inverted steel coaster from Bolliger & Mabillard that plunges riders into a man-made ravine, weaves through rock walls, and flips them upside down four times in just 80 seconds. Since
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