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/ August 16, 2026
The Fractionator at Meryal Waterpark in Lusail, Qatar starts higher than any enclosed water slide in history — 250 ft 4 in (76.3 m) up the park’s Icon Tower. Together with Vertigo, the trapdoor slide beside it, it holds the Guinness World Records title for…
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/ August 16, 2026
High Extreme is the ride that towers over Raging Waters Los Angeles: a pair of 600-foot mat-racing flumes launched from 109 feet up, ridden head-first at speeds up to 35 mph. Opened in 1997, it ranks #22 on our list of the tallest water slides…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Port of Nagoya Public Aquarium opened in 1992 on the waterfront of Japan’s busiest port, in Minato Ward, Nagoya. Three decades on, it is the largest aquarium in Japan by both total tank capacity and floor area — roughly 27 million litres of water…
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/ August 16, 2026
When Meryal Waterpark opened in Lusail, Qatar in 2023, it didn’t just edge past the world water slide record — it demolished it. Vertigo launches from the top of the park’s Icon Tower at 250 ft 4 in (76.3 m), making it the tallest water…
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/ August 16, 2026
Cyclón is the slide that put Aqualandia back on the record boards: a 36-meter (118 ft) tower drop feeding a 200-meter raft run that ends inside a 20-meter-wide funnel. The Benidorm park added it in 2019, and it ranks #21 on our list of the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Summit Plummet is the most famous water slide in America: a 120-foot free-fall body slide styled as a ski jump, dropping off the top of Mount Gushmore at Disney’s Blizzard Beach in Orlando. When it opened with the park on April 1, 1995, it was…
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/ August 16, 2026
Deep Water Dive is the slide that made Kentucky Kingdom’s 2014 comeback impossible to ignore: a 121-foot ProSlide drop body slide where the floor quite literally disappears from under you. It ranks #19 on our list of the tallest water slides in the world. Part…
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/ August 16, 2026
Scary Falls is the slide Caribe Bay saves for its bravest guests: a 38-meter (124.7 ft) plunge taken in complete darkness. The Italian park in Jesolo, on the Adriatic coast near Venice, bills it simply — launch yourself into the darkness and find out what…
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/ August 16, 2026
Chengdu sits about as far from the ocean as a major Chinese city can, more than 1,500 kilometers from the nearest coast. That did not stop it from building the Cube Oceanarium, an 11-million-liter aquarium that briefly owned one of the aquarium world’s most coveted…
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/ August 16, 2026
Every big aquarium promises a trip around the world’s oceans. The Afrykarium in Wrocław, Poland, makes the opposite bet: one continent, done properly. Opened inside Wrocław Zoo in 2014, it is the world’s only oceanarium devoted entirely to the aquatic life of Africa, and with…
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/ August 16, 2026
On the strip of land between Durban’s harbor and the Indian Ocean surf sits uShaka Marine World, a 16-hectare marine theme park whose Sea World aquarium is the largest in Africa. With roughly 17.5 million liters (4.6 million US gallons) of water, it was among…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most aquariums bring the ocean indoors. Atlanterhavsparken, on the rocky headland of Tueneset just west of Ålesund, does the opposite: the buildings are blasted and built directly into the Atlantic coastline, and its biggest exhibits blur into the sea itself. Counting its huge outdoor seal…
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/ August 16, 2026
On the volcanic island of Jeju, a short hop from Seongsan Ilchulbong crater, Hanwha’s Aqua Planet Jeju is the largest public aquarium in South Korea. With roughly 20 million liters of water across its tanks, it lands at number 12 on our ranking of the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Most people walk into EPCOT’s Seas pavilion expecting a Finding Nemo dark ride. What they are actually entering is one of the biggest aquariums in the United States: a 5.7-million-US-gallon (21.6-million-liter) saltwater system that held the title of world’s largest tank for nearly two decades.
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/ August 16, 2026
SeaWorld Abu Dhabi opened on May 23, 2023, on Yas Island in the UAE capital — the first SeaWorld park ever built outside the United States, and the first designed from the ground up without orcas. The $1.2 billion marine park, developed and operated by…
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/ August 16, 2026
At the southern tip of Taiwan, where the island narrows into the tropical peninsula of Kenting National Park, sits the country’s biggest window on the ocean. The National Museum of Marine Biology & Aquarium (NMMBA) in Pingtung County holds 24.14 million liters of seawater, which…
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/ August 16, 2026
Chimelong Spaceship is the current holder of the Guinness World Record for the largest aquarium on Earth. Opened to the public in September 2023 on Hengqin Island in Zhuhai, China, the spaceship-shaped megastructure holds a certified 75,350,969 litres of water — nearly twice the volume…
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/ August 16, 2026
Wrocław Zoo is the oldest zoo in Poland — and, by number of animals and species, also its largest. It first opened on July 10, 1865, as the Breslau Zoological Garden, when the city was part of Prussia, with a grand ceremony complete with fireworks…
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/ August 16, 2026
Hanover Zoo — officially the Erlebnis-Zoo Hannover, or ‘Adventure Zoo’ — was established on May 4, 1865, making it the fifth-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. After one of the rockiest histories of any major zoo…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Moscow Zoo opened on January 31, 1864, which makes it the oldest zoo in Russia and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. From a modest menagerie founded by university professors, it has grown into one of the largest zoos in…
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