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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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/ June 30, 2026
Standing 174 feet above the Palatinate countryside, Expedition GeForce is the tallest and fastest ride at Plopsaland Deutschland — and one of the most decorated steel roller coasters ever built. Since opening in 2001, this Intamin mega coaster has paired an 82-degree first drop with
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/ June 29, 2026
Raging Waters Sacramento once packed 25 water attractions onto 20 acres of the Cal Expo fairgrounds, but the gates have been locked since November 2022 — and the plan to bring it back has now fallen apart too. If you’re trying to figure out whether
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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
Situated on the University of Wisconsin campus in Madison, Camp Randall Stadium has been the beating heart of Badgers football since it opened on November 3, 1917. Designed by architect Arthur Peabody at a cost of just $15,000, the stadium was built on grounds that
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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
When Silver Star opened at Europa-Park on March 23, 2002, it instantly became one of the biggest steel coasters on the continent — the tallest ride Bolliger & Mabillard had ever built, and the tallest, fastest, and longest-dropping coaster anywhere in Europe. More than two
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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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