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/ September 2, 2026
Night Safari is a 35-hectare (86-acre) wildlife park set within Singapore’s Mandai Wildlife Reserve, billed as the world’s first zoo dedicated entirely to nocturnal animals. It opened on 26 May 1994 and operates only after dark, welcoming guests daily from 6pm to midnight (last entry…
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/ September 2, 2026
Taipei Zoo is Taiwan’s largest zoological park, spread across 165 hectares in the hills of Wenshan District at the southern edge of the capital. Originally founded in 1914 as Maruyama Zoo during the Japanese colonial era, the zoo relocated to its current Muzha site in…
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/ September 2, 2026
Dr. Diabolical’s Cliffhanger is a Bolliger & Mabillard dive coaster in the Crackaxle Canyon section of Six Flags Fiesta Texas in San Antonio. It opened to the public on July 30, 2022, replacing the Sundance Theatre, an original venue that had stood since the park…
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/ September 2, 2026
Steel Eel is a steel hyper coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio in San Antonio, Texas, built by D. H. Morgan Manufacturing. It opened on March 6, 1999, as what was then the single-biggest ride investment the park had made, giving guests a fast, airtime-focused counterpart…
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/ September 1, 2026
Aloha Stadium opened on September 12, 1975, in Hālawa, Hawaii, and quickly became the island’s premier venue for football, baseball, and concerts. Built by the Luckman Partnership for roughly $37 million, the 50,000-seat stadium was engineered with a striking gimmick: four massive seating sections that…
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/ September 1, 2026
Wilton’s Music Hall sits down a quiet cobbled alley in Shadwell, East London, and holds the title of the oldest surviving grand music hall in the world. Built in 1859 by architect Jacob Maggs behind a row of Georgian terrace houses, it grew out of…
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/ September 1, 2026
Kolmården Wildlife Park, known in Swedish as Kolmårdens Djurpark, opened on May 27, 1965, on a dramatic stretch of coastline overlooking Bråviken bay near Norrköping, Sweden. Conceived in 1962 as a project to help revive the local Kolmården Municipality, the park began with 210 animals…
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/ September 1, 2026
Leipzig Zoo opened on June 9, 1878, in the German city of Leipzig and has grown into one of Europe’s most acclaimed zoological gardens. Spread across roughly 27 hectares (67 acres), it is consistently ranked as Germany’s top-rated zoo and often cited as Europe’s second-best…
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/ September 1, 2026
Texas Stingray is a wooden roller coaster at SeaWorld San Antonio, built by Great Coasters International (GCI) and designed by Skyline Attractions. It had a soft opening on February 21, 2020, followed by its public debut on February 29, 2020, though a brief pandemic-related closure…
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/ August 31, 2026
Harvard Stadium has stood along the Charles River in Boston’s Allston neighborhood since 1903, making it the oldest stadium structure still in use for college football in the United States. Built for the Harvard Crimson, the horseshoe-shaped venue was also the nation’s first large permanent…
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/ August 31, 2026
Forest Hills Stadium is an outdoor concert venue on the grounds of the West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills, Queens, New York City. Built in 1923, the horseshoe-shaped stadium was originally constructed to host tennis, serving as the home of the U.S. National Championships…
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/ August 31, 2026
Hellabrunn Zoo sits on the banks of the Isar River in Munich, Germany, and first opened to the public on August 1, 1911. Financial troubles tied to the aftermath of World War I forced it to close in 1922, but it reopened on May 23…
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/ August 31, 2026
Tierpark Berlin opened in 1955 in the Friedrichsfelde district of East Berlin, created as the divided city’s eastern counterpart to the Berlin Zoological Garden in the west. Built around the grounds of the 17th-century Friedrichsfelde Palace, the park was laid out using landscaping traditions dating…
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/ August 31, 2026
Green Lantern was a stand-up roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, from 2011 until its closure after the 2024 season. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard, it sent riders through five inversions at speeds up to 63…
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/ August 30, 2026
Mind Bender opened at Six Flags Over Georgia on March 31, 1978, and was marketed as the world’s first triple-loop roller coaster. Built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel, the steel sit-down coaster cost about $2.8 million and quickly became…
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/ August 30, 2026
Grizzly is a wooden roller coaster at Kings Dominion in Doswell, Virginia, that has been rattling through the park’s forested Old Virginia section since it opened on March 27, 1982. Designed by noted coaster engineer Curtis D. Summers, its double-figure-eight layout closely follows the blueprint…
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/ August 29, 2026
Rossetti Architects was a Detroit-based architecture firm founded in 1969 by Gino Rossetti, initially focused on healthcare, corporate and retail work before pivoting toward large-scale sports and entertainment design. The firm’s breakthrough came in 1984, when it was hired to design The Palace of Auburn…
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/ August 29, 2026
AECOM is a multinational infrastructure consulting firm, currently headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that ranks among the most prolific players in modern stadium and arena development. Formed in 1990, the company grew into a Fortune 500 engineering giant with roughly 51,000 employees worldwide, offering architecture, engineering…
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/ August 29, 2026
Compagnie des Alpes is a French leisure conglomerate founded on January 26, 1989, originally to consolidate and operate ski resorts across the French Alps. Headquartered in Paris and listed on Euronext Paris under the ticker CDA, the company’s leading shareholder is Caisse des Dépôts, the…
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/ August 29, 2026
Arrow Dynamics was an American roller coaster manufacturer whose engineering breakthroughs defined the modern steel coaster industry. Tracing its roots to Arrow Development, founded in Mountain View, California in 1946 by Ed Morgan and Karl Bacon, the company reorganized under the Arrow Dynamics name in…
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