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/ August 16, 2026
Dresden Zoo (Zoo Dresden) opened its gates on May 9, 1861, on the southern edge of the Großer Garten, the vast park at the heart of the Saxon capital. That makes it the fourth-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Cologne Zoo (Kölner Zoo) has been part of life on the Rhine since 1860, making it the third-oldest zoo in Germany and one of the oldest zoos in the world still operating. Today the zoo, with its attached aquarium and invertebrate exhibit, keeps more than…
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/ August 16, 2026
Thiruvananthapuram Zoo (also known as Trivandrum Zoo) in the capital of Kerala is one of the oldest zoos in India — and one of the oldest anywhere in Asia. A zoo and public park were opened here in 1859 to draw more visitors to the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Antwerp Zoo (ZOO Antwerpen) was established on 21 July 1843, making it the oldest animal park in Belgium and one of the oldest zoos anywhere. Its location could hardly be more dramatic: the ornate entrance sits directly beside Antwerpen-Centraal, the cathedral-like railway station in the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Copenhagen Zoo was founded in 1859 by the ornithologist Niels Kjærbølling, who was granted a princess’s former summer garden on Frederiksberg hill to house his collection. More than 165 years later it is the most visited zoo in Denmark and one of the country’s most…
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/ August 16, 2026
Frankfurt Zoological Garden opened in 1858, making it the second-oldest zoo in Germany after Berlin. It sits in the Ostend district close to the city centre, packing more than 4,500 animals of over 510 species into about 11 hectares. Its age alone earns it a…
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/ August 16, 2026
Diergaarde Blijdorp — Rotterdam Zoo — was founded on 18 May 1857 as the Rotterdamsche Diergaarde, a Victorian-era garden in the middle of the city. Yet the zoo you visit today is also a 20th-century landmark: in 1940 it moved to the Blijdorp district and…
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/ August 16, 2026
Circuit de la Sarthe is a legendary racing venue in Le Mans, France, best known as the home of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the world’s oldest active endurance sports car race, first run in 1923. The circuit combines permanent racetrack sections with public…
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/ August 16, 2026
Dublin Zoo opened its gates in Phoenix Park on 1 September 1831, a year after the Royal Zoological Society of Dublin was founded at a meeting in the Rotunda Hospital in May 1830. The grounds were laid out by Decimus Burton, the celebrated architect who…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Ménagerie du Jardin des Plantes opened on 11 December 1794 inside Paris’s famous botanical garden, making it the second-oldest zoological garden in the world — only Vienna’s Tiergarten Schönbrunn is older. It was created in the turmoil of the French Revolution, largely stocked with…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 largest aquariums in the world by total water volume — the standard measure for comparing them — covering facilities open to the public as of August 2026, with every figure checked against current sources. Where totals effectively tie, the aquarium…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the tallest water slides in the world that are actually operating as of August 2026 — body, mat, and tube slides all count, ranked by published slide height and verified ride-by-ride. Slides that no longer exist don’t make the cut, no matter…
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/ August 16, 2026
Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is a 4.361-kilometer motorsport circuit built on Notre Dame Island in the Saint Lawrence River, within Montreal’s Parc Jean-Drapeau. It opened on October 6, 1978 as the Île Notre-Dame Circuit and was renamed in 1982 to honor Canadian Formula One driver Gilles…
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/ August 16, 2026
In the desert 25 kilometers west of Alexandria stands the stage for one of African football’s most emotional nights. Borg El Arab Stadium — an 86,000-seat colossus beside the Cairo–Alexandria desert highway — is Egypt’s second largest stadium and the third largest in Africa, and…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Palais Theatre has stood on the St Kilda foreshore since 1927, when it opened as the Palais Pictures, a grand movie palace designed by architect Henry Eli White. Sitting beside Luna Park along Melbourne’s Lower Esplanade, it quickly became an anchor of the bayside…
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/ August 16, 2026
When Malaysia wants to make noise, it comes to Bukit Jalil. The Bukit Jalil National Stadium in Kuala Lumpur is the largest stadium in Southeast Asia, a bowl of roughly 87,411 seats beneath a sweeping white membrane roof that has hosted Commonwealth Games ceremonies, SEA…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Oregon Coast Aquarium sits along Yaquina Bay in Newport, Oregon, where it has introduced visitors to the marine life of the Pacific Northwest since opening on May 23, 1992. Spread across 23 acres, the AZA-accredited facility blends indoor galleries with outdoor habitats that mirror…
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/ August 16, 2026
Shimmering like a golden bowl in the desert 20 kilometers north of Doha, Lusail Stadium is the crown jewel of Qatar’s 2022 World Cup build-out — and the stage for what many call the greatest World Cup final ever played. With 88,966 seats it is…
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/ August 16, 2026
Lahore Zoo, on Mall Road in Lahore, Punjab, was established in 1872 and is one of the largest zoos in Pakistan — and by founding date one of the oldest zoos anywhere in the world. It began as a small aviary donated by Lala Mela…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Mulhouse Zoological & Botanical Park (Parc Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse) was created in 1868 by a group of philanthropist industrialists led by Charles Thierry-Mieg, on the wooded Rebberg heights at the edge of the Tannenwald forest in Alsace, France. More than 150 years…
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