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/ June 15, 2026
Exhibition Stadium — officially the Canadian National Exhibition Stadium and nicknamed ‘The Ex’ — stood on the Exhibition Place grounds along Lake Shore Boulevard West in Toronto, Ontario. Opened on August 5, 1959, it served as home to the Toronto Argonauts of the Canadian Football
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/ June 15, 2026
South End Grounds was the home of Boston’s National League baseball franchise for more than four decades, from 1871 to 1914 — the longest home-field tenure in the franchise’s history. Located at the northeast corner of Columbus Avenue and Walpole Street in Boston’s South End,
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/ June 15, 2026
Huntington Avenue Grounds was a wooden baseball stadium in Boston, Massachusetts, that served as the first home of the Boston Americans — later renamed the Red Sox — from 1901 to 1911. Built for approximately $35,000 on a former circus lot, the park opened on
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/ June 15, 2026
Empower Field at Mile High opened on August 11, 2001, replacing the original Mile High Stadium as the home of the Denver Broncos. Built at a cost of $400.9 million and designed by HNTB and Fentress Architects, the 76,125-seat venue sits at precisely 5,280 feet
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/ June 15, 2026
The Melbourne Cricket Ground, affectionately known as ‘the G’, stands in Yarra Park in East Melbourne as the largest stadium in the Southern Hemisphere and one of the eleven largest venues on earth. First opened in 1853, the ground holds up to 100,024 spectators across
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/ June 15, 2026
Dooley Field at Sanford Stadium is the on-campus football home of the University of Georgia Bulldogs, located in Athens, Georgia. The stadium opened on October 12, 1929, built at a cost of $360,000, and has grown from an initial 30,000-seat bowl into one of college
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/ June 15, 2026
Tucked into the wooded Halloween section of Holiday World & Splashin’ Safari in Santa Claus, Indiana, The Raven has spent three decades punching well above its 80-foot stature, earning a reputation among coaster enthusiasts as one of the finest wooden roller coasters ever built. Named
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/ June 15, 2026
When Magnum XL-200 launched at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio on May 6, 1989, it didn’t just break records — it invented a new category. Standing 205 feet tall and reaching 72 mph, it became the world’s tallest, fastest, and steepest complete-circuit roller coaster at
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/ June 15, 2026
GateKeeper is a steel wing coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, designed and built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M). It opened on May 11, 2013, delivering Cedar Point’s most successful opening weekend in the park’s history. Riders sit in pairs on either
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/ June 15, 2026
The Elbphilharmonie, affectionately nicknamed ‘Elphi,’ is a striking concert hall complex rising 108 metres above the HafenCity waterfront in Hamburg, Germany. Designed by the Swiss architecture firm Herzog and de Meuron and officially inaugurated on 11 January 2017, the building sits atop the original 1963
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/ June 15, 2026
Symphony Hall, located at 301 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most celebrated concert halls on earth. Designed by the prestigious architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, it opened on October 15, 1900, at a construction cost of $771,000, built to serve
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/ June 15, 2026
Walt Disney Concert Hall opened on October 23, 2003, on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles, instantly becoming one of the world’s most recognized concert halls. Designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Frank Gehry, the building’s sweeping exterior is wrapped in more than 6,000 stainless steel
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/ June 15, 2026
Hilltop Park — officially named American League Park — was a wooden baseball stadium that stood in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, occupying the block bounded by Broadway, 165th Street, and 168th Street. Built in roughly six weeks at a cost of around $75,000
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/ June 15, 2026
Exposition Park stood along the banks of the Allegheny River on Pittsburgh’s North Side — then the independent city of Allegheny — and served as the home of the Pittsburgh Pirates for nearly two decades. Built in 1890 and seating around 16,000 fans, the covered
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/ June 15, 2026
League Park stood at the northeast corner of East 66th Street and Lexington Avenue in Cleveland’s Hough neighborhood as the city’s first major-league baseball home. Originally built as a 9,000-seat wooden structure in 1891, it was completely rebuilt in concrete and steel in 1910, expanding
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/ June 15, 2026
PNC Park opened on April 9, 2001, as the fifth home of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the franchise’s long history. Situated along the Allegheny River on Pittsburgh’s North Shore at 115 Federal Street, the $216 million ballpark was designed in a retro-classic style by Populous
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/ June 15, 2026
Oriole Park at Camden Yards opened on April 6, 1992, as the new home of the Baltimore Orioles, and immediately rewrote the rulebook for professional stadium design. Built at a cost of approximately $110 million, it was the first of the modern “retro” ballparks —
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/ June 15, 2026
Oracle Park has been the home of the San Francisco Giants since March 31, 2000, sitting at 24 Willie Mays Plaza on the edge of San Francisco Bay in the South Beach neighborhood. Built entirely with private funds at a cost of $357 million —
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/ June 15, 2026
Superman: Escape from Krypton was the ride that proved a roller coaster could out-accelerate a jet off a carrier deck: 0 to 100 mph in seven seconds, straight up a 415-foot vertical tower. For 27 years it was one of the defining attractions at Six
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/ June 15, 2026
New Texas Giant is the steel-and-wood hybrid coaster at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington that put Rocky Mountain Construction on the map. It reuses the timber structure of the original 1990 Texas Giant but rides nothing like it, thanks to a brand-new steel I-Box
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