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/ August 16, 2026
Shark Reef Aquarium sits inside Mandalay Bay resort on the Las Vegas Strip, giving visitors a walk-through look at one of the largest collections of sharks in the United States. Opened on June 20, 2000, after a $40 million construction investment, the 105,000-square-foot facility was…
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/ August 16, 2026
Egypt built the pyramids; in 2024 it opened a stadium crowned like a queen. Misr Stadium — Arabic for “Egypt Stadium,” and also known as the New Capital Stadium — is the centerpiece of the Egypt International Olympic City in the country’s New Administrative Capital…
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/ August 16, 2026
The Budapest Zoo & Botanical Garden (Fővárosi Állat- és Növénykert) opened on 9 August 1866, making it the oldest zoo in Hungary and one of the oldest in the world. Uniquely for a major zoo, it sits inside the City Park in the very center…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest roller coasters in ThrillZing’s database by the year they opened, from the earliest survivors of the wood-and-side-friction era up through the late 1920s, right before steel-braced ‘racer’ and ‘twister’ designs took over the industry. Every entry here has kept…
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/ August 16, 2026
Karlsruhe Zoo — formally the Zoologischer Stadtgarten Karlsruhe — opened in 1865, making it one of the oldest zoos in Germany. It is an unusual hybrid: a zoo and a landscaped city garden fused into one enclosed park in the heart of Karlsruhe, stretching between…
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/ August 16, 2026
On the edge of Soweto in Johannesburg stands Africa’s largest stadium — a giant vessel of fire-colored mosaic panels known officially as FNB Stadium, and affectionately as Soccer City or “The Calabash.” Rebuilt for the 2010 FIFA World Cup with a design inspired by the…
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/ August 16, 2026
Leningrad Zoo opened in 1865 in Alexander Park on St. Petersburg’s Petrogradskaya Storona, founded by Sofia and Julius Gerhardt as a private zoological garden. It is one of the oldest zoos in Russia and the most northerly of the country’s major zoos, and today it…
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/ August 16, 2026
Mean Streak was a wooden roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 11, 1991, in the park’s Frontier Town section. Designed by Curtis D. Summers and built by the Dinn Corporation from more than 1.5 million board feet of treated…
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/ August 16, 2026
Apocalypse: The Ride is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California, built by Great Coasters International and designed by Jeff Pike. It opened on May 23, 2009, originally themed to the film Terminator Salvation before Six Flags rebranded it Apocalypse…
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/ August 16, 2026
Rising from Rungra Island in the middle of Pyongyang’s Taedong River, the Rungrado 1st of May Stadium is one of the most extraordinary — and least visited — sports venues on Earth. Its scalloped roof of 16 concrete arches, designed to resemble a magnolia blossom…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 oldest zoos in the world that are still operating as of August 2026 — ranked by the year each institution first opened its gates to visitors as a zoo. Charter dates and royal menageries that never became public zoos don’t…
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/ August 16, 2026
This list ranks the 25 largest sports stadiums in the world by official seating capacity — stadiums that are open and hosting events as of August 2026, with every figure verified against current sources. Pure motorsport venues are excluded (more on that below), and stadiums…
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/ August 15, 2026
On April 2, 1999, Medusa at Six Flags Great Adventure changed coaster design forever: it was the world’s first floorless roller coaster, a Bolliger & Mabillard creation where riders sit in open-sided seats with nothing but air beneath their feet. Add seven inversions across nearly…
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/ August 15, 2026
Rising from the Egypt section of Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Montu is one of the most decorated inverted roller coasters ever built. When it opened on May 16, 1996, it was the world’s tallest and fastest inverted coaster, and its seven inversions still tie it…
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/ August 15, 2026
When Viper opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain on April 7, 1990, it was the tallest and fastest looping roller coaster on Earth — a 188-foot Arrow Dynamics giant that hurls riders through seven inversions above the Baja Ridge section of the Valencia, California park.
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/ August 15, 2026
When Goudurix opened with Parc Astérix on April 30, 1989, it arrived swinging: seven inversions packed into a single ride, jointly holding the European record for the most inversions on a roller coaster at its debut. Nearly four decades later, the Vekoma-built looper — named…
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/ August 15, 2026
Tucked into the lush lowlands of Retalhuleu, Guatemala, Avalancha is the ride that put Central America on the roller coaster map. The steel looper at Xetulul theme park throws riders through eight inversions — a figure that lands it among the roller coasters with the…
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/ August 15, 2026
Voltron Nevera is Europa-Park’s electrifying showpiece: a Mack Rides “Stryker Coaster” that opened on 26 April 2024 in the German park’s new Croatian-themed area. Its party trick is a beyond-vertical launch angled at 105 degrees — the train accelerates up and over backwards-leaning track, an…
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/ August 15, 2026
Flamingo Land in North Yorkshire is best known as a zoo with a serious coaster habit, and Sik is the most extreme expression of it. Opened on 2 July 2022, the bright-green Intamin machine turns riders upside down ten times per circuit – matching Colossus…
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/ August 15, 2026
Somewhere in St. Petersburg, a roller coaster with ten inversions is named after a sausage factory. Velikolukskiy Myasokombinat-2 – literally “Velikiye Luki Meat Processing Plant No. 2” – operates at Wonder Island (Divo Ostrov), the amusement park on Krestovsky Island, and it carries the name…
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