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/ August 3, 2026
Autzen Stadium is the home football venue of the Oregon Ducks, sitting along the Willamette River just north of the University of Oregon campus in Eugene. Opened in 1967, the stadium has grown from a modest 41,000-seat bowl into a 54,000-seat facility renowned as one
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/ August 3, 2026
Rockefeller Oslo is a concert venue in downtown Oslo, Norway, entered from Mariboes gate 5B. It occupies a building known as Torggata Bad, or “Market Street Bath,” which once housed a public bathing facility before the space was converted into one of the city’s leading
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/ August 3, 2026
Zénith Paris, officially Zénith Paris – La Villette, is a multi-purpose indoor concert arena in the Parc de la Villette in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. It opened on January 12, 1984, replacing the Hippodrome de Pantin, a circus tent that had previously served
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/ August 3, 2026
La Cigale is a concert hall and theatre at 120 boulevard de Rochechouart in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, just steps from Place Pigalle. Built in 1887 on the site of the former Boule Noire cabaret and rebuilt in 1894 under architect Henry Grandpierre, the
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/ August 3, 2026
Prague Zoo opened its gates on 28 September 1931 in the Troja district along the Vltava River, founded under director Jiří Janda. Nearly a century later, it has grown into one of the most respected zoos in the world, prized for its hilly, naturalistic terrain
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/ August 3, 2026
Tiergarten Schönbrunn, known internationally as Vienna Zoo, opened on July 31, 1752, on the grounds of Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna, Austria. Founded by Francis Stephen of Lorraine as an imperial menagerie for the Habsburg court, it holds the distinction of being the world’s oldest zoo
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/ August 3, 2026
Berlin Zoo, formally the Zoologischer Garten Berlin, opened in 1844 in the city’s Tiergarten park, making it the oldest surviving zoo in Germany. Over nearly two centuries it grew into the most species-diverse zoo in the world, a record it has held for decades, while
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/ August 3, 2026
RailBlazer is a steel single-rail roller coaster at California’s Great America in Santa Clara, California. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction and opened in June 2018, it was one of the first two prototype single-rail coasters in the world, debuting alongside its mirror-image twin, the Wonder
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/ August 3, 2026
Do-Dodonpa was a compressed-air launch coaster at Fuji-Q Highland in Fujiyoshida, Japan, built by S&S – Sansei Technologies using their Thrust Air Coaster system. It first opened as Dodonpa on December 21, 2001, instantly becoming the fastest roller coaster in the world and holder of
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/ August 2, 2026
Chester Zoo opened on June 10, 1931, when George Mottershead and his family established the site at Upton-by-Chester, Cheshire, on a philosophy of open, bar-free enclosures that was unusual for its time. Nearly a century later, it has grown into the most-visited zoo in the
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/ August 2, 2026
Williams-Brice Stadium is the home football venue of the South Carolina Gamecocks, sitting on George Rogers Boulevard in Columbia, South Carolina. The stadium’s roots trace back to 1934, when it opened as Columbia Municipal Stadium, a modest facility built with help from the Works Progress
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/ August 2, 2026
Jordan–Hare Stadium has served as the home field of the Auburn Tigers football team on the Auburn University campus in Auburn, Alabama, since it opened on November 9, 1939. Originally called Auburn Stadium and later Cliff Hare Stadium, the venue took its current name in
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/ August 2, 2026
Melkweg, Dutch for “Milky Way,” is a multidisciplinary cultural center and live music venue in Amsterdam, located on the Lijnbaansgracht near the Leidseplein nightlife district. The building began life as a 19th-century sugar refinery before becoming a milk factory that operated until 1969, and it
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/ August 2, 2026
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is a Grade II listed theatre on Shepherd’s Bush Green in West London, designed by renowned theatre architect Frank Matcham for impresario Oswald Stoll. It opened on 17 August 1903 as a music hall, with the Fred Karno Troupe, featuring a young
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/ August 2, 2026
The Ogden Theatre is a historic concert venue at 935 East Colfax Avenue in Denver’s Capitol Hill neighborhood, occupying a Mediterranean Revival building that first opened as a movie palace on September 6, 1917. Designed by architect Harry W. J. Edbrooke, the theater spent decades
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/ August 2, 2026
Whipsnade Zoo opened on 23 May 1931 as a bold experiment by the Zoological Society of London: an open-air park where animals could roam expansive paddocks instead of cramped city enclosures. Set in the Chiltern Hills near Dunstable, Bedfordshire, it became the first zoo in
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/ August 2, 2026
London Zoo opened on 27 April 1828 in Regent’s Park, making it the world’s oldest scientific zoo. It was founded by the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), which had been established two years earlier for the study of animal life, and the zoo only opened
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/ August 2, 2026
Stampida is a twin-track wooden racing roller coaster in the Far West section of PortAventura Park in Salou, Catalonia, Spain. Opened on March 17, 1997, and designed by John Wardley and Larry Bill for manufacturer Custom Coasters International, it was one of the first modern
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/ August 2, 2026
Furius Baco is a steel wing coaster at PortAventura Park in Salou, Catalonia, Spain, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel’s engineering firm. It opened on June 5, 2007, and made an immediate splash as the fastest roller coaster in Europe at the time,
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/ August 1, 2026
Singapore Zoo opened its gates on June 27, 1973, in the Mandai forest area of Singapore, introducing what became known as the “open concept” zoo design. Rather than caging animals, the zoo used moats, hidden barriers, and glass panels to create naturalistic habitats, letting visitors
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