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/ July 27, 2026
Severance Hall has been the home of The Cleveland Orchestra since it opened on February 5, 1931, and it remains one of the most architecturally striking concert halls in the country. Set in Cleveland’s University Circle neighborhood, the building pairs a stately neoclassical exterior with…
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/ July 27, 2026
Tucked down a narrow alley off Tremont Street, the Orpheum Theatre is one of the oldest working theaters in the country and one of Boston’s busiest mid-size concert rooms. Before you buy tickets, it helps to know exactly how big the room is, how to…
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/ July 27, 2026
Massey Hall is a concert hall in downtown Toronto, Ontario, that opened on June 14, 1894, as a gift from industrialist Hart Massey in memory of his son Charles. Designed by architect Sidney Badgley, the building blends a neoclassical exterior with a Moorish Revival interior…
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/ July 27, 2026
The El Paso Zoo is a 35-acre zoological park in El Paso, Texas, tracing its roots to 1910 when local donations of deer and a gray wolf formed the basis of what was then known as the Washington Park Zoo. Over the following century it…
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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 Mid America Adventure (formerly 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…
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/ July 27, 2026
The Boss is the wooden “terrain twister” that carved a name for itself in the wooded hills of the Britannia section, using the natural landscape instead of steel supports to launch riders through six track crossings and a 150-foot first drop. This guide covers everything…
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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 one of the NBA’s older active arenas, it’s known for a pioneering green roof…
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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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