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/ September 25, 2026
Carolina Cyclone is a steel looping roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it opened on March 22, 1980, at a reported cost of about $2 million. When it debuted, it was the first roller…
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/ September 25, 2026
Vortex is a steel stand-up roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was built by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), with layout engineering by Werner Stengel’s firm, and it opened to the public on March 14, 1992. Riders stand on the train instead of…
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/ September 25, 2026
Mountain America Stadium is the home of Arizona State Sun Devils football, on the university’s campus in Tempe, Arizona. It opened on October 4, 1958, as Sun Devil Stadium, with about 30,000 seats. Arizona State beat West Texas State 16-13 in the first game there.
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/ September 25, 2026
Larkins Music Center sits at 257 Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile, Alabama, in the city’s central entertainment district. It is not a large concert hall. It is the working home of two of the Gulf Coast’s performing arts groups, the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and Mobile…
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/ September 25, 2026
The Bat Flight Amphitheater is an outdoor stone amphitheater at the Natural Entrance to Carlsbad Cavern in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. It isn’t a concert venue in the usual sense. Its “performers” are Brazilian free-tailed bats, which pour out of the cave mouth…
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/ September 25, 2026
Binder Park Zoo is a 433-acre zoo near Battle Creek, Michigan, that opened in 1977. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and is one of the larger zoos in the state. It draws roughly 250,000 visitors a year. The zoo…
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/ September 25, 2026
Audubon Zoo is a 58-acre zoo in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River side of Magazine Street. It opened in 1914 and is home to roughly 2,000 animals. It is managed by the Audubon Nature Institute and is accredited by the Association of…
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/ September 25, 2026
Little Dipper is a small wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It is a compact figure-eight ride with gentle hills, dips and turns, and it is built for young riders. It is often a child’s first roller coaster. The ride…
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/ September 24, 2026
Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri, is the home of the Missouri Tigers football team. It opened on October 2, 1926, and is dedicated to the 112 University of Missouri students and alumni who died in World War I. The playing surface has…
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/ September 24, 2026
Andrews Amphitheater, also called Andrews Outdoor Theatre, is an open-air venue on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus in Honolulu. Built of stone in a tiered bowl around a central lawn, it opened on June 20, 1935, and is designed to hold up to…
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/ September 24, 2026
The Wharf Amphitheater is an open-air concert venue in Orange Beach, Alabama, at 23101 Canal Road. It seats about 10,000 people and is one of the largest music venues on the Gulf Coast. It sits inside The Wharf, a waterfront entertainment complex. The venue opened…
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/ September 24, 2026
Blossom Music Center is an outdoor amphitheater in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, roughly 30 miles south of downtown Cleveland. It opened in 1968 and is the summer home of The Cleveland Orchestra. Its covered pavilion and sweeping lawn hold about 23,000 people in total, which makes…
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/ September 24, 2026
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum sits in the foothills of the Tucson Mountains, along Kinney Road just south of the west section of Saguaro National Park. Despite the name, it is part zoo, part botanical garden, part natural history museum, part aquarium and part art gallery.
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/ September 24, 2026
The Aquarium of Niagara sits at 701 Whirlpool Street in Niagara Falls, New York, a short distance from the famous waterfalls. It opened on June 12, 1965, and its official website says it is home to more than 120 species of animals, including California sea…
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/ September 24, 2026
The Abilene Zoo is a city-owned, AZA-accredited zoo at 2070 Zoo Lane in Grover Nelson Park, on the east side of Abilene, Texas. It opened at this site on July 2, 1966, replacing an older zoo elsewhere in the city. The Abilene Zoological Society, a…
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/ September 24, 2026
Dark Knight is an enclosed steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It opened on May 21, 2008, and was built by Mack Rides at a reported cost of about $7.5 million. It is not a big-drop thrill machine.
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/ September 24, 2026
Wild Mouse is a steel spinning roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It opened on May 6, 2023, as the anchor of the park’s new Boardwalk area, and it was billed as the park’s 18th roller coaster. Zamperla built it, and it was…
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/ September 23, 2026
Queen Mary’s Dark Harbor is an annual Halloween haunted attraction staged aboard and around the retired ocean liner RMS Queen Mary, permanently docked in Long Beach, California. First opened on October 1, 2010, the event transforms the historic ship’s decks, corridors, and adjacent parking areas…
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/ September 23, 2026
Edgbaston Cricket Ground sits in the Edgbaston area of Birmingham, England, and has served as the home of Warwickshire County Cricket Club since 1894. The Cricket Ground Company acquired the site in 1885, and the ground staged its first match, against the MCC, in June…
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/ September 23, 2026
The Oval is a cricket ground in Kennington, in the London Borough of Lambeth, that has served as the home of Surrey County Cricket Club since it opened in 1845. Built on what had once been a market garden, the ground was laid out after…
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