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/ September 17, 2026
Commonwealth Stadium opened in 1978, built to host the Commonwealth Games in Edmonton, Alberta. What began as a purpose-built athletics venue quickly became a year-round home for professional football, growing into Canada’s second-largest stadium by seating capacity and the largest open-air stadium in the country.
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/ September 17, 2026
BC Place is a multi-purpose stadium on the north shore of False Creek in downtown Vancouver, British Columbia. It opened on June 19, 1983, originally topped by what was then the world’s largest air-supported inflatable roof, and has served ever since as the home field…
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/ September 17, 2026
Olympic Stadium rises over Montreal’s Hochelaga-Maisonneuve district as one of the most distinctive sports venues in North America. Built for the 1976 Summer Olympics and opened on July 17 of that year, the stadium was designed by French architect Roger Taillibert in a swooping, organic-modern…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Horseshoe Tavern is a concert venue at 370 Queen Street West in downtown Toronto, Ontario, occupying a building that dates back to 1861. Jack Starr opened it as an 87-seat tavern in December 1947, and it built its early reputation as a country and…
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/ September 17, 2026
The Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts opened on November 6, 2014, in downtown Orlando, Florida, becoming the city’s premier home for touring Broadway shows, orchestral music, ballet, and opera. Built across two city blocks, the campus was funded through a mix of public…
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/ September 17, 2026
Zach’s Zoomer is a wooden roller coaster at Michigan’s Adventure in Muskegon, Michigan, built specifically to bridge the gap between kiddie rides and the park’s larger wooden coasters. It opened on July 22, 1994, designed by Custom Coasters International with trains built by Philadelphia Toboggan…
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/ September 16, 2026
Viper is a wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois, that opened to the public on April 29, 1995. Designed by Dennis Starkey and built at an estimated cost of $4 million, the ride was constructed as a near mirror image…
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/ September 16, 2026
Viper was a steel looping roller coaster that operated at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson Township, New Jersey, from 1995 to 2004. Built by Japanese manufacturer TOGO at a cost of about $4 million, it replaced the short-lived Ultra Twister and featured a compact…
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/ September 16, 2026
Runaway Mine Train opened on July 4, 1974, as one of the founding attractions at Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, New Jersey, making it the park’s very first steel roller coaster. Built by Arrow Development, the pioneering firm behind the mine train genre, the…
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/ September 16, 2026
Murrayfield Stadium sits on Roseburn Street in Edinburgh as the home of Scottish rugby, opening on 21 March 1925 with a Scotland win over England that clinched the country’s first Five Nations Grand Slam in front of roughly 70,000 fans. Owned and operated by the…
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/ September 16, 2026
Aviva Stadium rises on the banks of the River Dodder in Dublin 4, its curved translucent facade a striking departure from the terraced stands that once stood on the same site. Built on the footprint of the historic Lansdowne Road grounds, the stadium opened in…
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/ September 16, 2026
The Count Basie Center for the Arts is a landmarked performing arts venue at 99 Monmouth Street in Red Bank, New Jersey. It opened on November 11, 1926 as the Carlton Theater, one of several ornate Keith-Albee-Orpheum vaudeville houses built along the East Coast, drawing…
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/ September 16, 2026
The Agora Theatre and Ballroom is a concert venue on Euclid Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, carrying a name and legacy that trace back to 1966, when promoter Hank LoConti opened the first Agora club near Case Western Reserve University. That original club became a launching…
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/ September 15, 2026
Shock Wave opened on April 22, 1978, at Six Flags Over Texas in Arlington, Texas, built by German manufacturer Anton Schwarzkopf and designed by engineer Werner Stengel. Standing 116 feet tall, it briefly claimed the title of the world’s tallest complete-circuit roller coaster before being…
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/ September 15, 2026
Flug der Dämonen, German for “Flight of the Demons,” is a Bolliger & Mabillard wing coaster at Heide Park Resort in Soltau, Lower Saxony, Germany. It opened on March 29, 2014, as Germany’s first wing coaster, replacing the former Wildwasserbahn II water ride that had…
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/ September 15, 2026
Fluch von Novgorod (“Curse of Novgorod”) opened at Hansa-Park in Sierksdorf, Germany, on April 9, 2009, as a custom Gerstlauer Euro-Fighter built around a launched, dark-ride opening sequence. Riders depart the station through an indoor show scene before an LSM launch system rockets the train…
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/ September 15, 2026
Bandit is a steel terrain roller coaster at Yomiuriland, an amusement park in Inagi, near Tokyo, Japan. Built by the Japanese manufacturer TOGO and opened on March 25, 1988, it briefly held the title of the world’s fastest roller coaster before Cedar Point’s Magnum XL-200…
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/ September 15, 2026
Pyrenees is a steel inverted roller coaster at Shima Spain Village in Shima, Mie, Japan, named after the mountain range that forms the natural border between Spain, Andorra, and France, echoing the park’s Spanish-themed setting. Built by Swiss manufacturer Bolliger & Mabillard and designed by…
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/ September 15, 2026
Vogel Rok is an enclosed steel roller coaster at Efteling, the historic amusement park in Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands. Built by Dutch manufacturer Vekoma, it opened on April 9, 1998, and takes its story from the Second Voyage of Sindbad the Sailor in the One Thousand and…
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/ September 15, 2026
Lost Gravity is a steel roller coaster at Walibi Holland in Biddinghuizen, Netherlands, built by German manufacturer Mack Rides and opened to the public on March 24, 2016. It debuted as the first installation of Mack’s then-new “BigDipper” train system, a design notable for seating…
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