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/ July 27, 2026
Reid Park Zoo is a city-owned, nonprofit zoo tucked inside Tucson’s Reid Park in Arizona. Unofficially established in 1965 by parks director Gene Reid and formally opened in 1967, the zoo has grown from a small municipal attraction into an AZA-accredited facility spanning about 24
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/ July 27, 2026
Utah’s Hogle Zoo has been a Salt Lake City landmark since it opened on August 1, 1931, on land donated by James A. Hogle and his wife at the mouth of Emigration Canyon. Nearly a century later, the AZA-accredited zoo remains one of the Intermountain
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/ July 27, 2026
Screamin’ Eagle is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri, built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters and designed by legendary coaster architect John C. Allen. It opened on April 10, 1976, as part of the park’s America’s Bicentennial celebration, and Guinness
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/ July 27, 2026
The Boss is a wooden roller coaster in the Britannia section of Six Flags St. Louis in Eureka, Missouri. It opened on April 29, 2000, built by Custom Coasters International and designed by Dennis McNulty and Larry Bill, and quickly earned a reputation as one
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/ July 26, 2026
Fort Adams State Park sits on a 105-acre peninsula in Newport, Rhode Island, wrapped around a massive 19th-century coastal fortification overlooking Newport Harbor. Since the state acquired the site in 1965, the grounds surrounding the old fort have become one of the most storied outdoor
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/ July 26, 2026
Tucked inside historic Druid Hill Park, The Maryland Zoo in Baltimore has been introducing visitors to wildlife since 1876, making it the third-oldest zoo in the United States. Nearly 150 years later, it’s grown into an AZA-accredited conservation institution spanning about 135 acres, home to
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/ July 26, 2026
Target Center is the downtown Minneapolis arena that’s been home to the Minnesota Timberwolves since 1990 and the Minnesota Lynx since the WNBA franchise launched in 1999. Beyond its status as the NBA’s second-oldest active arena, it’s known for a pioneering green roof, a modernized
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/ July 26, 2026
Gainbridge Fieldhouse is the downtown Indianapolis arena that has served as home to the Indiana Pacers of the NBA since it opened in November 1999, replacing the aging Market Square Arena. Designed by Ellerbe Becket and Blackburn Architects, the venue’s brick-and-glass facade was deliberately modeled
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/ July 26, 2026
On Canal Street at the edge of the French Quarter stands one of New Orleans’ grandest surviving movie palaces: the Saenger Theatre, an atmospheric 1927 showplace built to make audiences feel like they were sitting under an open-air Mediterranean sky. Nearly a century, a hurricane,
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/ July 26, 2026
The Tabernacle is downtown Atlanta’s most recognizable concert hall, built inside a red-brick, neoclassical church that has stood across from Centennial Olympic Park since 1911. Under its restored plaster ceiling and original stained glass, the room now hosts touring rock, hip-hop, electronic, and comedy acts
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/ July 26, 2026
Rising above Flatbush Avenue with a marquee that blazes with light once again, Kings Theatre is Brooklyn’s grandest concert hall — a French Baroque movie palace built in 1929 that spent nearly four decades as a boarded-up ruin before a roughly $95 million restoration brought
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/ July 26, 2026
The Virginia Zoo sits on 53 acres beside Lafayette Park in Norfolk, Virginia, tracing its roots back to 1900 when the city began assembling a small animal collection in the park. More than a century later, it has grown into an AZA-accredited zoo, home to
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/ July 26, 2026
The North Carolina Zoo in Asheboro is widely recognized as the world’s largest natural habitat zoo, overseeing roughly 2,805 acres in the Uwharrie foothills of the Piedmont region, including wildlife conservation lands like Ridges Mountain Nature Preserve. Since opening to the public in 1974, it
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/ July 26, 2026
Zambezi Zinger is a wooden hybrid roller coaster at Worlds of Fun in Kansas City, Missouri, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) with design work from Skyline Attractions. It opened to the public on June 19, 2023, replacing the park’s former Dinosaurs Alive! attraction in
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/ July 25, 2026
UPDATE (July 28, 2026): The reveal is out — Project Purple is Bakunawa, a 382-foot spinning launch coaster claiming six world records, including the world’s first upside-down launch. Full details, teaser and official POV at the link. Six Flags Great Adventure released a second teaser
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/ July 25, 2026
Bank of America and the Carolina Panthers announced on July 23, 2026, a long-term extension of their naming-rights partnership for Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina. Neither the length nor the financial value of the new agreement was disclosed, but it keeps one
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/ July 25, 2026
Rocket Arena is the downtown Cleveland arena that has been home to the Cleveland Cavaliers since it opened as Gund Arena on October 17, 1994. Known as Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse from 2019 to 2025, the venue took its current name in February 2025, when naming-rights
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/ July 25, 2026
The Hollywood Pantages Theatre opened on June 4, 1930, on Hollywood Boulevard at Vine Street, capping off vaudeville magnate Alexander Pantages’s chain of movie palaces with what many consider his grandest house. Designed by architect B. Marcus Priteca in a striking Art Deco style, the
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/ July 25, 2026
The Chicago Theatre has anchored State Street in the Loop since it opened on October 26, 1921, its towering marquee becoming one of the most photographed symbols of the city. Designed by the architecture firm Rapp & Rapp, the theater was built as a movie
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/ July 25, 2026
Roskilde Festival is an annual music and arts festival held at Dyrskuepladsen, just south of the city of Roskilde, Denmark, roughly 30 km (19 miles) west of Copenhagen. Founded in 1971 by two high school students, Mogens Sandfær and Jesper Switzer Møller, alongside promoter Carl
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