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/ July 31, 2026
Ask any longtime Chicago music fan where to see a band before everyone else knows their name, and the Empty Bottle comes up almost immediately. Tucked into Ukrainian Village at 1035 N. Western Avenue, it’s equal parts corner dive bar, arcade-and-pinball hangout, and roughly 400-capacity…
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/ July 31, 2026
The Casbah is a small, unpretentious rock club in San Diego, California, founded in 1989 by Tim Mays, Bob Bennett, and Peter English on the site of a former Irish pub at 2812 Kettner Boulevard. With a legal capacity of just 75 in its original…
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/ July 31, 2026
An hour north of New Orleans, Global Wildlife Center lets giraffes, zebras, and bison walk right up to your vehicle instead of watching from behind a fence. It’s one of the largest free-roaming wildlife preserves in the country, and it’s built entirely around that up-close…
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/ July 31, 2026
Out of Africa Wildlife Park is a wildlife park and sanctuary in Camp Verde, Arizona, founded in 1988 by Dean and Prayeri Harrison. The park began in Fountain Hills, Arizona before relocating to its current 100-plus acre site near the Mingus Mountains in 2005, where…
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/ July 31, 2026
Wildlife World Zoo, Aquarium & Safari Park began as a small bird-breeding operation on just 5 acres in Glendale, Arizona, started by teacher Mickey Ollson. In 1973, Ollson purchased 25 acres in nearby Litchfield Park, and the zoo opened to the public there in 1984…
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/ July 31, 2026
Kondaa is a steel roller coaster at Walibi Belgium in Wavre, built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin using their Mega Coaster model. It opened to the public on May 8, 2021, becoming the park’s ninth coaster and an instant record-holder in the region. Set within the…
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/ July 31, 2026
Toutatis is a steel launched roller coaster at Parc Astérix in Plailly, France, named after the Celtic deity from the Asterix comics whose catchphrase “By Toutatis!” gives the ride its theatrical flair. Built by Intamin as an LSM launch coaster, it opened to the public…
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/ July 30, 2026
Circuit of the Americas, known as COTA, is a motorsports complex in Austin, Texas that opened on October 21, 2012 as the first purpose-built Grand Prix facility in the United States designed to FIA Grade 1 standards. Since its debut, it has served as the…
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/ July 30, 2026
Autodromo Nazionale Monza is a motor racing circuit set inside a royal park just north of Milan, Italy. Opened on September 3, 1922, it was the world’s third purpose-built race track after Brooklands and Indianapolis, and it was built in about 110 days. Its nickname…
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/ July 30, 2026
Antone’s Nightclub — often written Antone’s Night Club — is Austin, Texas’s most storied blues venue, opened on July 15, 1975, when Clifford Antone converted a former Sixth Street furniture store into a stage for touring blues legends and the young Austin players who idolized…
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/ July 30, 2026
The Continental Club has anchored South Congress Avenue in Austin, Texas since 1955, when original owner Morin Scott opened it as an upscale private supper club featuring nationally touring big bands like Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller. It was reportedly the first venue in Travis…
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/ July 30, 2026
The Semperoper is the historic opera house of the Sächsische Staatsoper Dresden (Saxon State Opera), standing on Theaterplatz beside the Elbe River in Dresden, Germany. Designed by architect Gottfried Semper, the building first opened in 1841 in a style blending early Renaissance and Baroque elements…
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/ July 30, 2026
Fossil Rim Wildlife Center is a nonprofit conservation park spread across 1,800 acres of Texas Hill Country near Glen Rose, about an hour southwest of Fort Worth. Visitors drive their own vehicles along a scenic road through open pastures where giraffes, zebras, antelope, and endangered…
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/ July 30, 2026
Wildlife Safari is a 615-acre drive-through animal park in Winston, Oregon, founded by Frank Hart in 1972 after he was inspired by his travels to Africa. Visitors drive their own vehicles along a roughly 4.5-mile route through open pastures where animals from around the world…
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/ July 30, 2026
Lion Country Safari opened on August 29, 1967, in Loxahatchee near West Palm Beach, Florida, and is billed as the first cageless zoo and the nation’s first drive-through safari park. A group of South African and British entrepreneurs created the park so South Florida families…
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/ July 30, 2026
Seven Dwarfs Mine Train is the most popular ride at Magic Kingdom, and also one of the most misunderstood: it looks like a kiddie ride from the queue, then surprises first-timers with real drops, banked turns, and a cart that sways side to side like…
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/ July 30, 2026
If you’re trying to figure out whether Incredicoaster fits into a tight Pixar Pier itinerary, the ride time itself is the easy part — it’s the boarding, launch, and unload cycle around it that actually eats your afternoon. The coaster is a launched Intamin steel…
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/ July 29, 2026
Six Flags Great Adventure revealed the official name and details of its long-teased “Project Purple” coaster on July 28, 2026: Bakunawa, a 382-foot giga coaster the park says will claim six world records when it opens in 2027. Named for a sea serpent from Philippine…
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/ July 29, 2026
Suzuka International Racing Course, known worldwide simply as Suzuka Circuit, is a motorsport venue in Ino, Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Opened in September 1962, it was designed by Dutch engineer John Hugenholtz as a test track for Honda, which has owned the facility since…
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/ July 29, 2026
Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps is a motor racing circuit in the Ardennes forest near Stavelot, Belgium, first laid out in 1921 on public roads connecting the villages of Francorchamps, Malmedy, and Stavelot. It hosted its first Grand Prix in 1925 and has remained one of the…
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