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/ July 23, 2026
Twisted Cyclone is the ride that convinced a lot of coaster fans that Six Flags Over Georgia had one of the best hybrids in the country: a wooden coaster’s bones wrapped in RMC’s steel I-Box track, delivering nonstop airtime and a genuinely unique inversion nobody
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/ July 23, 2026
Front row or back row is the great debate of coaster fandom — ask any group of riders in a station and you’ll hear passionate cases for both ends of the train. The truth is that front row or back row isn’t just a preference;
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/ July 22, 2026
Donington Park is a motor racing circuit near Castle Donington in Leicestershire, England, that has doubled as one of Britain’s most important rock and metal music venues since 1980. Built in 1931 as the first permanent park circuit in England, it closed during the Second
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/ July 22, 2026
De Schorre is a 75-hectare provincial recreation domain in Boom, Belgium, about 16 kilometers south of Antwerp. Built on the site of former clay extraction pits, the park was purchased by the Province of Antwerp from the town of Boom in December 1986 and today
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/ July 22, 2026
Las Vegas Motor Speedway opened its main 1.5-mile tri-oval track in 1996 as a NASCAR venue north of the Strip, part of a larger motorsports complex whose roots trace back to 1971. While it’s best known for NASCAR stock car racing and NHRA drag events,
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/ July 22, 2026
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium traces its roots to 1894, when it opened as the small Riverview Park Zoo. It was renamed in 1963 after a major gift from businessman Henry Doorly, and has since grown into one of the most acclaimed zoological parks
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/ July 22, 2026
The Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium sits on 202 acres inside Swope Park in Kansas City, Missouri, and has welcomed visitors since it first opened on December 13, 1909. What began as a single building housing the zoo’s entire animal collection for $32,000 has grown
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/ July 22, 2026
The Detroit Zoo opened in its current form on August 1, 1928, spanning the border of Royal Oak and Huntington Woods, Michigan, just north of the city of Detroit. It made history as one of the first zoos in the United States to move away
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/ July 22, 2026
X-Flight is a Bolliger & Mabillard Wing Coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on May 16, 2012. It was only the fourth wing coaster built anywhere in the world and the second in the United States, following
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/ July 22, 2026
Maxx Force is a launched steel roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened on July 4, 2019. Built by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, it replaced the Pictorium, the park’s longtime IMAX theater, and introduced a
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/ July 21, 2026
The Cavern Club, the Liverpool basement venue where The Beatles played nearly 300 shows in the early 1960s, announced on July 20, 2026 a partnership with National Museums Liverpool for a landmark exhibition marking its 70th anniversary. Titled “70 Years of The Cavern Club,” the
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/ July 21, 2026
Elland Road is the football stadium in Beeston, Leeds, West Yorkshire, that has served as the home of Leeds United since 1919. The ground dates back even further, to 1897, when it first hosted Holbeck Rugby League Club before Leeds City F.C. and later Leeds
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/ July 21, 2026
Molineux Stadium has sat on Waterloo Road in Wolverhampton since 1889, making it one of the oldest continuously used grounds in English top-flight football. Home to Wolverhampton Wanderers, it grew from a Victorian pleasure park into a modern all-seater arena that has hosted a European
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/ July 21, 2026
Randall’s Island Park sits on an island in the East River between Manhattan, the Bronx, and Queens, connected to the city by pedestrian and vehicle bridges near the Triborough (RFK) Bridge. The park was formally established in 1936 alongside the bridge’s completion and is today
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/ July 21, 2026
Golden Gate Park is San Francisco’s biggest outdoor stage, and it has been since before electric guitars existed. A 1,017-acre public park that opened on April 4, 1870, it holds the free Spreckels Temple of Music bandshell in its Music Concourse, the sprawling meadows that
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/ July 21, 2026
Bayfront Park Amphitheater — officially the FPL Solar Amphitheater at Bayfront Park, and sometimes spelled Bayfront Park Amphitheatre — is the open-air waterfront venue on Biscayne Bay in downtown Miami that hosts touring concerts and the annual Ultra Music Festival. It sits inside the 32-acre
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/ July 21, 2026
The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium has anchored Pittsburgh’s Highland Park neighborhood since 1898, growing from a small municipal menagerie into a 77-acre zoo and aquarium complex with more than 8,000 animals. Whether you’re mapping out a family day trip or just want the straight facts
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/ July 21, 2026
The Buffalo Zoo has been a fixture of Buffalo, New York since 1875, making it the third oldest zoo in the United States according to the zoo’s own history. Tucked into the historic grounds of Delaware Park, the zoo has grown from its 19th-century roots
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/ July 21, 2026
Prospect Park Zoo is a compact, family-oriented zoo tucked into the eastern side of Prospect Park in Brooklyn, New York. Operated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the same nonprofit behind the Bronx Zoo, New York Aquarium, and Central Park Zoo, it traces its roots
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/ July 21, 2026
Goliath opened at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois on June 19, 2014, rising from the site of the former Iron Wolf coaster. Built by Rocky Mountain Construction (RMC) and designed by Alan Schilke, it paired RMC’s steel-topped Topper Track with a traditional wood
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