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/ September 18, 2026
Casino Pier is an amusement park and boardwalk fixture in Seaside Heights, New Jersey, that has drawn Jersey Shore crowds since 1932. Built by industrialist Linus R. Gilbert, the pier once stretched roughly 300 feet into the Atlantic Ocean and, together with its attractions along
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/ September 18, 2026
Crystal Beach Park was a lakeside amusement park in Crystal Beach, Ontario, that opened on May 28, 1888, and operated for 101 years along the northern shore of Lake Erie near Fort Erie. Its location made it a favorite cross-border escape for Buffalo, New York
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/ September 18, 2026
Kolmården Wildlife Park sits on the shores of Bråviken bay near Norrköping, Sweden, blending Scandinavia’s largest zoo with a genuine amusement park lineup. Since opening on 27 May 1965, the park has grown from an animal park into a full day-out destination, spreading across roughly
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/ September 18, 2026
TusenFryd is Norway’s largest amusement park, located in Vinterbro, about 20 kilometers south of Oslo. It opened on June 11, 1988, on the grounds of a former zoo, and drew nearly 500,000 visitors in its very first season. Today the park is owned by Spanish
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/ September 18, 2026
Linnanmäki opened on 27 May 1950 in Helsinki’s Alppila district, making it the oldest amusement park in Finland. It is owned and operated by the Children’s Day Foundation, a non-profit organization that has funneled the park’s earnings into Finnish child welfare programs for more than
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/ September 18, 2026
Mt. Olympus Water & Theme Park is a Greek mythology-themed amusement and water park resort in Wisconsin Dells, Wisconsin, a town that calls itself the “Waterpark Capital of the World.” Founded in 1990 by the Laskaris family, who still own and operate it today, the
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/ September 18, 2026
Luna Park opened on May 29, 2010, on the former Astroland site at 1000 Surf Avenue in Coney Island, Brooklyn, reviving a name last used by an amusement park that operated nearby from 1903 to 1944. The new park was designed and built by Central
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/ September 18, 2026
Belmont Park is a small seaside amusement park in the Mission Beach neighborhood of San Diego, California, that opened on July 4, 1925, as part of developer John D. Spreckels’ plan to promote his electric railway and beachfront real estate. Nearly a century later, it
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/ September 18, 2026
La Ronde is an amusement park on Saint Helen’s Island in Montreal, Quebec, built as the entertainment complex for Expo 67 and opened in April 1967. The City of Montreal ran the park for 34 years before selling it to Six Flags in 2001; in
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/ September 18, 2026
Legendia is an amusement park in Chorzów, Poland, set within the sprawling grounds of Silesian Park. Construction began in 1956 and the park opened to the public in 1959 under the name Śląskie Wesołe Miasteczko (Silesian Amusement Park), making it the oldest operating amusement park
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/ September 18, 2026
Plopsaland De Panne is a family theme park in Adinkerke, part of the coastal town of De Panne in West Flanders, Belgium. The site began life in 1935 as Meli Park, a honey-themed attraction built around a real apiary, before Belgian media company Studio 100
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/ September 18, 2026
Toverland is a themed amusement park in Sevenum, in the Dutch province of Limburg, operated by the Gelissen Group. It opened on May 19, 2001, as an indoor family entertainment venue before expanding over the following two decades into a full-scale park spread across six
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/ September 18, 2026
Walibi Holland sits on the Flevoland polder in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, where it has drawn thrill-seekers since opening in 1971 as part of the broader Flevohof recreation area. Now owned by French leisure group Compagnie des Alpes, the park has grown into one of the Benelux
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/ September 18, 2026
Shima Spain Village opened on April 22, 1994, on the Shima Peninsula in Mie Prefecture, Japan, as a resort dedicated entirely to Spanish culture. Built through a partnership between Mie Prefecture and Spain that began in 1992, the park recreates Spanish plazas, architecture, and festivals
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/ September 18, 2026
Warner Bros. Movie World opened on 3 June 1991 in Oxenford, Queensland, about 20 kilometres from Surfers Paradise on Australia’s Gold Coast. Operated by Village Roadshow Theme Parks under license from Warner Bros., it holds the distinction of being Australia’s only film-related theme park and
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/ September 18, 2026
Dreamworld opened on 15 December 1981 in Coomera on Queensland’s Gold Coast, built on land founder John Longhurst began assembling in 1974. Now owned and operated by Coast Entertainment, the park spans about 55 hectares (137 acres) and bills itself as Australia’s largest theme park,
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/ September 18, 2026
Silverwood Theme Park sits on roughly 400 acres of pine forest near Athol, Idaho, about 47 miles north of Spokane, Washington, making it the largest theme park in the Pacific Northwest. Founded by Gary Norton and opened in June 1988 on the site of a
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/ September 18, 2026
Hansa-Park is a family-owned amusement park in Sierksdorf, Schleswig-Holstein, perched directly on the Baltic Sea coast in northern Germany. Opened on May 15, 1977, as Hansaland before being renamed Hansa-Park in 1987, the park has grown into one of Germany’s most-visited attractions, drawing over a
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/ September 18, 2026
Heide Park Resort opened on August 19, 1978, near the town of Soltau in Lower Saxony, Germany, on land once occupied by the Heidenhof wildlife park. Over the decades it grew into the largest amusement park in Northern Germany and one of the largest in
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/ September 18, 2026
PortAventura Park opened on May 1, 1995, on the Costa Daurada near Salou and Vila-seca in Catalonia, Spain, about 53 miles southwest of Barcelona. Spread across roughly 128 acres, the park organizes its rides and shows into six themed areas — Mediterrània, Polynesia, China, México,
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