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/ September 23, 2026
The Mediolanum Forum is an indoor arena in Assago, a town about 3 km south of Milan, Italy. Opened on October 26, 1990 as the Forum di Assago and designed by architects Giuseppe and Luca Cabassi, the venue has carried several sponsor names over the…
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/ September 23, 2026
Altice Arena rises beside the Tagus River in Lisbon’s Parque das Nacoes, its shell-like roof one of the most recognizable silhouettes to come out of the 1998 Lisbon World Expo. Designed by Portuguese architect Regino Cruz working with Skidmore, Owings & Merrill, the building was…
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/ September 23, 2026
Palau Sant Jordi is a domed indoor arena in Barcelona, Spain, built as the centerpiece venue for the 1992 Summer Olympics. Designed by Japanese architect Arata Isozaki with structural engineer Mamoru Kawaguchi, the arena was constructed between 1986 and 1990 at a cost of around…
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/ September 22, 2026
The Hockenheimring is a motorsport circuit near the town of Hockenheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, that opened on May 29, 1932. Originally a long triangular course cut through the surrounding forest, part of the layout had to be reworked in the mid-1960s when construction of the…
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/ September 22, 2026
The Imola Circuit, officially known as the Autodromo Internazionale Enzo e Dino Ferrari, opened in 1953 near the town of Imola in Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, just 40 kilometers east of Bologna. Built through the countryside surrounding the Santerno river, the track quickly became one of…
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/ September 22, 2026
WiZink Center stood as one of Europe’s busiest concert arenas, rising along Avenida Felipe II in Madrid, Spain. Originally opened in 1960 as the Palacio de Deportes, the building was destroyed by a fire in 2001 and rebuilt in a striking High-Tech style, reopening in…
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/ September 22, 2026
Avicii Arena rises over Stockholm’s Johanneshov district as one of the most recognizable concert venues in Europe, its perfectly spherical shell visible across the city skyline since it opened on February 19, 1989. Originally called Stockholm Globe Arena and later Ericsson Globe under a sponsorship…
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/ September 22, 2026
Oslo Spektrum is a multi-purpose indoor arena in downtown Oslo, Norway, standing beside Oslo Central Station in the heart of the city. Opened in December 1990 and designed by LPO Arkitektkontor, the venue is instantly recognizable for its exterior mosaic of nearly 400,000 tiles incorporating…
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/ September 21, 2026
Little Dipper is a steel kiddie roller coaster at Memphis Kiddie Park in Brooklyn, Ohio, a small family amusement park just outside Cleveland. Built by the Allan Herschell Company, the ride opened with the park on May 28, 1952, making it one of the oldest…
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/ September 21, 2026
Memphis Kiddie Park opened on May 28, 1952, along Memphis Avenue in Brooklyn, Ohio, the vision of Cleveland native Stuart Wintner after he read a trade article on the amusement industry in Billboard magazine. Built specifically for young children amid the postwar suburbs on Cleveland’s…
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/ September 21, 2026
Martinsville Speedway opened in September 1947 in Ridgeway, Virginia, making it the oldest track still on the NASCAR schedule. Built by local businessman H. Clay Earles, the track hosted its first NASCAR-sanctioned race on July 4, 1948, won by Fonty Flock, and later became the…
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/ September 21, 2026
Darlington Raceway opened on August 19, 1950, as the first paved superspeedway built specifically for NASCAR stock car racing. Tucked into the small town of Darlington, South Carolina, the track hosted its inaugural Southern 500 that September, a grueling 500-mile race won by Californian Johnny…
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/ September 21, 2026
Road America is a permanent road racing circuit near Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, that opened on September 10, 1955, after safety concerns ended the open public-road races the town had hosted since 1950. Built by local civil engineer Clif Tufte, the 4.048-mile, 14-turn circuit was carved…
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/ September 21, 2026
Forest National, known in Dutch as Vorst Nationaal, is a circular multi-purpose arena in the Forest municipality of Brussels, Belgium. It opened on October 8, 1970 with a performance by Maurice Béjart’s Ballet of the 20th Century, and has since grown into the largest concert…
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/ September 21, 2026
Disaster Transport was an enclosed steel bobsled roller coaster at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio. It began life as Avalanche Run, an outdoor Intamin bobsled coaster announced in October 1984. Cedar Point had originally targeted Avalanche Run to debut with the park’s May 11, 1985…
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/ September 21, 2026
The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror is a drop tower attraction at Disney’s Hollywood Studios in Walt Disney World, themed around Rod Serling’s classic anthology series The Twilight Zone. Set inside the fictional Hollywood Tower Hotel on Sunset Boulevard, the ride tells the story of…
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/ September 21, 2026
Demon Drop was a pioneering freefall tower that stood at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, from 1983 to 2009. Built by Swiss manufacturer Intamin as one of its first-generation Freefall models, the ride sent four-rider cabs climbing 131 feet into the air before releasing them…
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/ September 21, 2026
maXair is a HUSS Park Attractions Giant Frisbee ride at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 7, 2005. Positioned near the front of the park close to Troika, GateKeeper, and Kiddy Kingdom, it quickly became known as one of the fastest non-coaster…
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/ September 21, 2026
Power Tower is a four-towered thrill complex at Cedar Point in Sandusky, Ohio, that opened on May 9, 1998. Built by S&S Power of Logan, Utah, it remains the only ride of its kind in the world to combine two Space Shot towers, which rocket…
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/ September 21, 2026
Corkscrew has been twisting riders upside down at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon since 1979, back when the park was still known as Deer Park under owner Roger Jourden. Built by Arrow Dynamics, it holds the distinction of being the first inverting roller coaster in the…
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