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/ July 19, 2026
Riddler’s Revenge opened on April 4, 1998, at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, as the park’s eleventh roller coaster and its single biggest investment to date at a cost of roughly $14 million. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it was designed
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/ July 18, 2026
The Phoenix Zoo opened on November 21, 1962, in Papago Park after Robert Maytag of the Maytag family founded the Arizona Zoological Society and led the drive to build it, with the City of Phoenix leasing the Society the former state fish-hatchery grounds that became
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/ July 18, 2026
Bruno Mars opens a six-night residency at Wembley Stadium in London on July 18, 2026, the largest concert stand of his career and one of the biggest live-music commitments the 90,000-capacity venue has hosted this summer. The shows are part of his Romantic Tour, his
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/ July 18, 2026
La Bombonera, officially Estadio Alberto José Armando, has been the home of Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires’ La Boca neighborhood since it opened on May 25, 1940. Its nickname, meaning “The Chocolate Box” in Spanish, came from architect Viktor Sulčič, who reportedly used an actual
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/ July 18, 2026
The Cotton Bowl is an outdoor stadium in Dallas, Texas, located within the historic Fair Park complex. Opened in 1930 as Fair Park Stadium, it was renamed in 1936 for the Cotton Bowl Classic, the annual college football bowl game that called it home for
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/ July 18, 2026
Silverstone Circuit began life as a wartime bomber base, its concrete runways and perimeter roads repurposed for racing almost by accident once the war ended. Within two years it was hosting the very first round of the Formula 1 World Championship, and more than seven
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/ July 18, 2026
Chastain Park Amphitheatre is an outdoor concert venue tucked inside Chastain Park in Atlanta’s Buckhead neighborhood, and it holds roughly 6,900 concertgoers across a mix of reserved table seating, standard reserved seats, and general admission lawn. Opened on June 20, 1944 as the North Fulton
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/ July 18, 2026
Pine Knob Music Theatre is an outdoor amphitheater in Independence Township, Michigan, about 40 miles northwest of Detroit near Clarkston. It opened on June 25, 1972 with a matinee performance by teen idol David Cassidy, and at the time was the largest amphitheater in the
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/ July 18, 2026
San Antonio Zoo has occupied a corner of Brackenridge Park since 1914, growing from an early collection of a few hundred specimens into one of the more species-dense zoos in the country. Built partly into a former limestone quarry, the zoo used the site’s natural
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/ July 18, 2026
The Minnesota Zoo opened on May 22, 1978, in Apple Valley, as one of only two state-supported zoos in the country (the other is the North Carolina Zoo). Spread across 485 acres, it was among the first American zoos to organize exhibits by habitat rather
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/ July 18, 2026
Xcelerator is the hydraulic launch roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California, and it’s the ride that started an entire category: when it opened on June 22, 2002, it was Intamin’s very first hydraulically launched coaster, a technology later scaled up for
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/ July 17, 2026
Cedar Point shut its gates at 7 p.m. on Thursday, July 16, 2026 — roughly three hours ahead of its typical peak-summer closing time — after smoke from hundreds of active Canadian wildfires pushed regional air quality to hazardous levels. The Sandusky, Ohio park, known
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/ July 17, 2026
Silver Bullet is a Bolliger & Mabillard inverted steel roller coaster at Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California. Themed to the park’s Ghost Town section, the $16 million ride opened to the public on December 7, 2004, giving riders a western-flavored spin on the
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/ July 17, 2026
The Nürburgring is a motorsport complex built into the hills of the Eifel mountains near the village of Nürburg in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Construction began in September 1925 and the circuit opened in the spring of 1927, originally conceived as a proving ground for German automakers
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/ July 17, 2026
Hampden Park holds 51,866 spectators today — a fraction of the roughly 150,000 fans who once packed into Scotland’s national stadium during its early-20th-century heyday. Located in the Mount Florida area of Glasgow, the ground has been reshaped more dramatically than almost any other stadium
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/ July 17, 2026
Jones Beach Theater is one of the most recognizable outdoor concert venues in the New York area, prized as much for its waterfront setting as for its lineup of touring acts. Located within Jones Beach State Park in Wantagh, New York, it’s officially known as
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/ July 17, 2026
KOKO in Camden Town is one of London’s best-known mid-sized music venues, and if you’re trying to work out whether it fits your show, club night, or private event, the capacity numbers matter more than the venue’s famous history does. KOKO holds up to 1,500
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/ July 17, 2026
Paradiso is a music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, Netherlands, housed in a striking 19th-century building that began life as a house of worship. Built between 1879 and 1880 for De Vrije Gemeente (The Free Congregation) by architect Gerlof Salm, the structure sat empty
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/ July 17, 2026
The Milwaukee County Zoo is a 190-acre zoological park located at 10001 W. Bluemound Road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Its roots trace back to 1892, when a small menagerie opened in the city’s Washington Park, but the zoo moved to its current, much larger site in
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/ July 17, 2026
The Indianapolis Zoo sits in White River State Park about a mile from downtown Indianapolis, Indiana. Opened at its current riverside location on June 11, 1988, the zoo traces its roots back to an original site at Washington Park that first opened on April 18,
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