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/ October 6, 2026
Laff Trakk is an indoor spinning roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, tucked into the Midway America section of the park next to the Merry-Derry-Dip. It opened to guests on May 23, 2015, as part of a $14 million investment, giving the park a…
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/ October 5, 2026
Acrisure Bounce House is the home football stadium of the UCF Knights, sitting on the university’s main campus in Orlando, Florida. It opened on September 15, 2007 as Bright House Networks Stadium and has carried several corporate names since, most recently taking the Acrisure brand…
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/ October 5, 2026
The Wales Millennium Centre rises over Cardiff Bay as Wales’s national home for the performing arts, its curved bronze and slate facade wrapped in a giant bilingual inscription by poet Gwyneth Lewis. The building opened in phases, with the first stage welcoming audiences over the…
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/ October 5, 2026
OVO Hydro is a multi-purpose indoor arena on the Scottish Event Campus beside the River Clyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Designed by Foster + Partners and built at a cost of around £125 million, the distinctive domed venue opened on September 30, 2013, with an inaugural…
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/ October 5, 2026
Gladys Porter Zoo opened in Brownsville, Texas, on September 3, 1971, after the Earl C. Sams Foundation built, stocked, and staffed the entire park before donating it to the city. The zoo was named for Gladys Porter, daughter of former J.C. Penney president Earl C.
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/ October 5, 2026
Tucked into the wooded hills of Washington University’s Tyson Research Center near St. Louis, the Endangered Wolf Center has spent more than five decades working to pull some of the world’s rarest canids back from the brink of extinction. Founded in 1971 by naturalist Marlin…
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/ October 5, 2026
Comet is a wooden roller coaster at Hersheypark in Hershey, Pennsylvania, built by Philadelphia Toboggan Coasters and designed by Herbert Paul Schmeck. It opened on May 30, 1946, making it the oldest operating roller coaster in the park and one of the last rides personally…
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/ October 4, 2026
Protective Stadium rose in downtown Birmingham, Alabama, as the centerpiece of a broader push to reshape the city’s skyline and give its sports scene a modern home. Opened on October 2, 2021 with a UAB football game against Liberty, the venue replaced the aging Legion…
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/ October 4, 2026
Hallenstadion is a multipurpose indoor arena in the Oerlikon district of northern Zurich, Switzerland. Designed by architect Bruno Giacometti, it opened on November 4, 1939, making it one of the longest-running large indoor venues in Europe. A major renovation completed in 2004-05, costing roughly 145…
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/ October 4, 2026
Dickerson Park Zoo has welcomed visitors to Springfield, Missouri since 1923, when the Springfield Park Board established the zoo on land purchased from the estate of Jerome Dickerson, Sr., whose name the park still carries. Like many American zoos of its era, it got a…
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/ October 4, 2026
The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia sits inside Soden’s Grove Park in Emporia, Kansas, and has grown from a modest early-1900s animal collection into one of the smallest zoos in the country to earn accreditation from the Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The zoo opened…
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/ October 4, 2026
The Dakota Zoo sits on the banks of the Missouri River in Bismarck, North Dakota, where it has grown from a small backyard menagerie into an AZA-accredited facility spanning 90 acres. It opened to the public on June 3, 1961, with just 75 mammals, 23…
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/ October 4, 2026
Woodstock Express is a wooden roller coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy section of Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Opened all the way back in 1975, it’s one of the oldest rides still operating at the park, and its gentle, winding layout has made it…
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/ October 4, 2026
Wilderness Run is a steel family roller coaster tucked into the Camp Snoopy section of Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina-South Carolina border near Charlotte. Built by E&F Miler Industries, the ride opened in 1998 under the name Taxi Jam, giving the park’s…
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/ October 3, 2026
Center Parc Stadium sits at 755 Hank Aaron Drive in Atlanta, Georgia, and few college football venues can match its backstory. The structure began life as Centennial Olympic Stadium, built for the 1996 Summer Olympics, where it hosted track and field competitions and the closing…
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/ October 3, 2026
Dowdy-Ficklen Stadium is the on-campus football home of the East Carolina University Pirates in Greenville, North Carolina. Opened in 1963 as Ficklen Memorial Stadium with just 10,000 seats, it has grown through decades of expansions into one of the largest stadiums among Group of Five…
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/ October 3, 2026
David Booth Kansas Memorial Stadium has been the home of Kansas Jayhawks football in Lawrence, Kansas, since it opened on October 29, 1921. Built as a memorial to University of Kansas students who died in World War I, it’s recognized as one of the oldest…
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/ October 3, 2026
ACL Live at the Moody Theater opened on February 10, 2011, in downtown Austin, Texas, as the full-time production home of the long-running PBS series Austin City Limits. Built as part of the mixed-use Block 21 development alongside the W Austin hotel, the $40 million…
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/ October 3, 2026
The Beacon Theatre opened on December 24, 1929, at 2124 Broadway on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, built by showman Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel as a lavish movie palace. Architect Walter W. Ahlschlager designed the interior with a sweeping mix of Renaissance, Greco-Roman, and Rococo flourishes, crowned…
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/ October 3, 2026
Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo sits inside historic Beardsley Park in Bridgeport, Connecticut, holding the distinction of being the only Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)-accredited zoo in the entire state. The zoo traces its roots back to 1922, when it opened on parkland that local farmer…
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