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/ July 16, 2026
The Philadelphia Zoo holds the distinction of being America’s first zoo, chartered by the Zoological Society of Philadelphia in 1859 and finally opening its gates on July 1, 1874, after the Civil War delayed construction. More than 3,000 visitors turned out on opening day to…
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/ July 16, 2026
Woodland Park Zoo sits in Seattle’s Phinney Ridge neighborhood, occupying 92 acres that once formed part of a private estate belonging to lumber mill owner Guy C. Phinney. After Phinney’s death, his widow sold the 188-acre Woodland Park to the City of Seattle in 1899…
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/ July 16, 2026
Exterminator is an indoor spinning roller coaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania. Built by French manufacturer Reverchon Industries and opened on April 18, 1999, it was Kennywood’s first indoor coaster and remains one of the more unusual attractions in the historic park’s…
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/ July 16, 2026
Steel Curtain is a steel hypercoaster at Kennywood amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania, that opened to the public on July 13, 2019. Manufactured by S&S – Sansei Technologies and designed by Joe Draves, the ride was built on the site of the former Log…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great Escape and Hurricane Harbor in Queensbury, New York, with a history that stretches back to a demolished Ontario amusement park. Its structural steel originated from the Crystal Beach Cyclone, which opened in 1927 at…
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/ July 15, 2026
Pitbull’s headline show at BST Hyde Park on Friday, July 10, 2026, drew the largest crowd in the festival’s history and produced a new Guinness World Records title: the largest gathering of people wearing bald caps, with 22,141 fans in the sold-out crowd donning the…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Circuit de Monaco is a street circuit that winds through the public roads of Monte Carlo and La Condamine in the Principality of Monaco, hugging the harbor as it climbs, dives, and tunnels through one of the most glamorous cities on earth. First run…
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/ July 15, 2026
Teatro Colón is a grand opera house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, widely regarded as one of the finest performing arts venues in the world. The current building opened on May 25, 1908, with a production of Verdi’s Aïda, replacing an earlier Teatro Colón that had…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Bolshoi Theatre is a historic opera and ballet house on Teatralnaya Square in Moscow, Russia. Its resident company traces back to 1776, but the theatre most people picture today dates to 1825, when architect Joseph Bové completed the neoclassical building that still anchors the…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Vienna State Opera, known in German as the Wiener Staatsoper, opened on May 25, 1869, with a performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni before Emperor Franz Joseph I. Designed by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll and built by Josef Hlávka…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Oregon Zoo sits in Portland’s Washington Park, just two miles southwest of downtown, and holds the distinction of being the oldest zoo west of the Mississippi River, tracing its roots back to 1888. Owned and operated by the regional government Metro since 1976, the…
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/ July 15, 2026
Denver Zoo has been a City Park fixture since a single donated black bear cub arrived in 1896 — and in 2026 the zoo is marking its 130th anniversary. Today it’s an 80-acre campus, home to more than 2,500 animals across roughly 450 species, and…
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/ July 15, 2026
The Dallas Zoo is Texas’s oldest and largest zoological park, sitting on 106 acres in Marsalis Park just three miles south of downtown Dallas. Founded in 1888, the zoo has grown from a small municipal menagerie into a major AZA-accredited institution that draws more than…
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/ July 15, 2026
Lightning Racer is a wooden dueling roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by GCI’s Mike Boodley. Planning began in 1999, and the $12.5 million ride opened to the public on May 13, 2000, inside the park’s…
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/ July 15, 2026
Candymonium is still Hersheypark’s benchmark thrill ride five years after opening — the tallest, fastest, and longest coaster in the park’s lineup, and a two-time top-10 finisher in Amusement Today’s Golden Ticket Awards for best steel coaster in the world. This guide covers every number…
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/ July 14, 2026
The Metropolitan Opera House has stood at 30 Lincoln Center Plaza on Manhattan’s Upper West Side since it officially opened on September 16, 1966. Designed by architect Wallace K. Harrison as the centerpiece of the newly built Lincoln Center complex, the fan-shaped auditorium replaced the…
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/ July 14, 2026
The Palais Garnier is a grand 19th-century opera house on the Place de l’Opéra in Paris’s 9th arrondissement, designed by architect Charles Garnier and opened on January 5, 1875. Built during the reign of Napoleon III in a lavish, eclectic style that blends Baroque, Renaissance…
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/ July 14, 2026
The Fort Worth Zoo opened in 1909 with a lion, some bear cubs, an alligator, a coyote, a peacock, and a few rabbits housed at Trinity Park. More than a century later, it has grown into one of the most acclaimed zoological facilities in the…
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/ July 14, 2026
The Houston Zoo sits inside Hermann Park near downtown Houston, Texas, and has welcomed visitors since it first opened in 1922 with a single deer pen donated to the city. Over the following century it grew into one of the most visited zoos in the…
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/ July 14, 2026
Brookfield Zoo opened on July 1, 1934, in Brookfield, Illinois, just outside Chicago, and quickly became known for reshaping how American zoos presented animals. Rather than lining up cages, the zoo used moats, ditches, and naturalistic barriers to separate visitors from wildlife, an approach that…
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