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/ October 6, 2026
The NorVa has anchored downtown Norfolk’s live music scene since reopening as a concert venue in 2000, but the building itself dates back much further. Constructed in 1922 as a 2,000-seat movie and vaudeville house, it spent decades showing films and even served as a…
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/ October 6, 2026
Germania Insurance Amphitheater sat on the grounds of Circuit of the Americas in southeast Austin, Texas, and grew into Central Texas’ largest outdoor concert venue. Designed by Miró Rivera Architects and built for about $62 million, the steel-roofed amphitheater first opened on November 17, 2012…
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/ October 6, 2026
The Santa Barbara Bowl is an outdoor amphitheater carved into a hillside canyon in Santa Barbara, California, built in 1936 as a Depression-era WPA project. It was originally constructed to host the city’s annual Old Spanish Days Fiesta pageant, giving the venue deep roots in…
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/ October 6, 2026
The Greensboro Science Center began on October 5, 1957, as the Greensboro Junior Museum, a small nature center started by the Junior League of Greensboro. Over the following decades it grew through name changes and expansions, from the Natural Science Center of Greensboro into the…
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/ October 6, 2026
Trailblazer is a steel mine train roller coaster that opened at Hersheypark on May 18, 1974, becoming the Pennsylvania park’s second roller coaster behind the classic wooden Comet. Built by Arrow Development for roughly $975,000, it launched the park’s western-themed Pioneer Frontier area and helped…
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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
Reser Stadium has stood at the heart of Oregon State University’s campus in Corvallis since the 1953 season, when it opened as Parker Stadium and the Beavers christened it with a 7-0 homecoming win over Washington State. The venue was renamed in 1999 to honor…
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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
Vicar Street is a concert hall and performing arts venue at 58-59 Thomas Street in Dublin 8, Ireland. Built in the late 1990s and opened in September 1998, it was developed by Harry Crosbie and has been operated by promoter Peter Aiken, quickly becoming one…
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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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