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/ July 14, 2026
Lincoln Park Zoo sits along Chicago’s lakefront in the neighborhood that shares its name, and it has welcomed visitors free of charge since it opened in 1868. That makes it one of the oldest zoos in the United States, predating most of the country’s major
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/ July 12, 2026
Kingda Ka was a hydraulic-launch steel coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, built by Intamin and designed by Werner Stengel. It opened on May 21, 2005, and instantly became the tallest and fastest roller coaster on Earth, a title it held
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/ July 11, 2026
Lagoon Amusement Park sits in Farmington, Utah, about 18 miles north of Salt Lake City, and traces its roots back to a lakeside resort called Lake Park that opened in 1886. When the Great Salt Lake receded and stranded the original site, Simon Bamberger moved
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/ July 1, 2026
Municipal Stadium stood at 2123 Brooklyn Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, serving the city’s sports fans for nearly five decades under four different names. Originally built in 1923 as Muehlebach Field for $400,000, the park became the heart of Kansas City athletics, hosting minor league
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/ July 1, 2026
Sicks’ Stadium opened on June 15, 1938, in Seattle’s Rainier Valley as the home of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific Coast League. Named after Emil Sick, the Rainier Brewing Company owner who financed its construction, the ballpark originally seated around 11,000 fans and became
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/ June 30, 2026
Roosevelt Stadium stood at Droyer’s Point in Jersey City, New Jersey, as one of the finest minor league ballparks of its era. Built with $1.5 million in federal Works Progress Administration funds and designed by architect Christian H. Ziegler in the Art Deco style, the
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/ June 30, 2026
Washington Park was the collective name for three successive Major League Baseball stadiums built on two adjacent sites in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, near the intersection of Third Street and Fourth Avenue. The grounds took their name from George Washington, whose
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/ June 29, 2026
Feethams was a historic football and cricket ground on Victoria Embankment in Darlington, England. Darlington F.C. made it their home in 1883 and stayed for 120 years, playing their final match there on 3 May 2003. With a capacity of around 8,500, the compact ground
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/ June 29, 2026
Fellows Park was a football stadium located on Hilary Street in Walsall, England, that served as the home of Walsall F.C. for 94 years from 1896 to 1990. Originally known simply as Hilary Street, the ground was renamed in 1930 to honour H.L. Fellows, a
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/ June 27, 2026
Vetch Field was a football stadium on Glamorgan Street, Swansea, Wales, and served as the home of Swansea City A.F.C. — then known as Swansea Town — from the club’s formation in 1912 until 2005. The ground took its name from the vetch legume plant
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/ June 27, 2026
Layer Road was a Football League ground in Colchester, England, that served as home to Colchester United F.C. from 1937 until 2008. Originally built in 1907 for Colchester Town F.C., the stadium stood on a 3.63-acre site and became the beating heart of football in
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/ June 25, 2026
Gay Meadow was a football ground in Abbey Forgate, Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England, that served as the home of Shrewsbury Town F.C. for 97 years, from 1910 until the end of the 2006–07 Football League season. Nestled on the banks of the River Severn with views
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/ June 22, 2026
Heysel Stadium opened on 23 August 1930 in the Laeken district of Brussels, designed by architect Joseph Van Neck and inaugurated as the Stade du Centenaire to mark the centenary of the Belgian Revolution. With an original capacity of around 70,000, it served as Belgium’s
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/ June 20, 2026
Goldstone Ground stood on Old Shoreham Road in Hove, East Sussex, and served as the home of Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. for 95 years. First used for football in September 1901, the ground became Brighton’s permanent base from the 1902–03 season and grew into
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/ June 20, 2026
The Victoria Ground, known affectionately as ‘The Vic’, served as the home of Stoke City F.C. from March 1878 to May 1997 — a span of 119 years that made it the longest-tenured ground in English Football League history. Located in Stoke-on-Trent, the stadium took
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/ June 17, 2026
Filbert Street was a football ground in Leicester, England, that served as the home of Leicester City F.C. from 1891 to 2002. The club, founded in 1884 as Leicester Fosse, played their first match at the ground on 7 November 1891 and remained there for
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/ June 17, 2026
Maine Road was a football stadium in the Moss Side district of Manchester, England — Manchester City’s home ground from its opening on 25 August 1923 until the club’s final match there on 11 May 2003. For 80 years it stood as one of English
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/ June 16, 2026
Sportsman’s Park stood at the corner of Grand Boulevard and Dodier Street on the north side of St. Louis, Missouri, serving as one of baseball’s most storied addresses for more than six decades. The modern steel-and-concrete structure opened on April 23, 1902, as home to
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/ June 16, 2026
Crosley Field stood at the corner of Findlay Street and Western Avenue in Cincinnati’s Queensgate neighborhood for nearly six decades, serving as the home of the Cincinnati Reds from its opening on April 11, 1912, until the club relocated to Riverfront Stadium in 1970. Originally
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/ June 16, 2026
White Hart Lane was the cherished home of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club for 118 years, from its opening on 4 September 1899 until its final match on 14 May 2017. Located in Tottenham, North London, the ground grew from a modest venue on a former
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