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/ September 27, 2026
Jones AT&T Stadium has served as the home of Texas Tech Red Raiders football on the university’s Lubbock, Texas campus since it opened on November 29, 1947, when the Red Raiders beat Hardin-Simmons 14-6 in the inaugural game. Built in the school’s signature Spanish Renaissance…
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/ September 27, 2026
Tucked into the pines of Paris Mountain State Park just five miles north of Greenville, South Carolina, Paris Mountain Amphitheater is a rustic outdoor concert bowl with roots in the Great Depression. Its stone-and-earth seating area was shaped around 1939 by the Civilian Conservation Corps…
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/ September 27, 2026
The Max M. and Marjorie S. Fisher Music Center sits at 3711 Woodward Avenue in Midtown Detroit, wrapping around the historic Orchestra Hall to give the Detroit Symphony Orchestra a modern home built around a century-old stage. The center takes its name from Max Fisher…
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/ September 27, 2026
Brandywine Zoo sits tucked into Brandywine Park along the banks of the Brandywine River in Wilmington, Delaware, on ground where George Washington is said to have mustered troops during the American Revolution. Opened in 1905 after Dr. James H. Morgan began assembling a small animal…
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/ September 27, 2026
Ninja is a suspended steel roller coaster tucked into the Samurai Summit area of Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Built by Arrow Dynamics and opened on May 21, 1988, it was the fifth of only ten suspended coasters the manufacturer ever built, and…
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/ September 27, 2026
Canyon Blaster opened at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California on May 27, 1999, as the centerpiece of a refreshed Bugs Bunny World. Built by E&F Miler Industries, the steel family coaster gave the park’s youngest guests their first real taste of a roller…
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/ September 26, 2026
Batman: The Ride is a steel inverted roller coaster at Six Flags Magic Mountain in Valencia, California. Built by Bolliger & Mabillard, it opened on March 26, 1994, and it was the first inverted coaster in Southern California. Riders sit in floorless-style seats with their…
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/ September 26, 2026
Sprocket Rockets is a small steel family coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. Vekoma built it, and it opened in 1998 under the name Spacely’s Sprocket Rockets. It is listed as a Junior Coaster that stands about 28 feet tall and runs…
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/ September 25, 2026
Ricochet is a steel Wild Mouse roller coaster at Carowinds, the amusement park straddling the North Carolina and South Carolina line near Charlotte. Built by Mack Rides, it opened on March 23, 2002, in the park’s Carolina Boardwalk area. It is a compact-model Wild Mouse…
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/ September 25, 2026
Carolina Cyclone is a steel looping roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Built by Arrow Dynamics and designed by Ron Toomer, it opened on March 22, 1980, at a reported cost of about $2 million. When it debuted, it was the first roller…
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/ September 25, 2026
Vortex is a steel stand-up roller coaster at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. It was built by Bolliger & Mabillard (B&M), with layout engineering by Werner Stengel’s firm, and it opened to the public on March 14, 1992. Riders stand on the train instead of…
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/ September 25, 2026
Mountain America Stadium is the home of Arizona State Sun Devils football, on the university’s campus in Tempe, Arizona. It opened on October 4, 1958, as Sun Devil Stadium, with about 30,000 seats. Arizona State beat West Texas State 16-13 in the first game there.
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/ September 25, 2026
Larkins Music Center sits at 257 Dauphin Street in downtown Mobile, Alabama, in the city’s central entertainment district. It is not a large concert hall. It is the working home of two of the Gulf Coast’s performing arts groups, the Mobile Symphony Orchestra and Mobile…
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/ September 25, 2026
The Bat Flight Amphitheater is an outdoor stone amphitheater at the Natural Entrance to Carlsbad Cavern in Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico. It isn’t a concert venue in the usual sense. Its “performers” are Brazilian free-tailed bats, which pour out of the cave mouth…
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/ September 25, 2026
Binder Park Zoo is a 433-acre zoo near Battle Creek, Michigan, that opened in 1977. It is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and is one of the larger zoos in the state. It draws roughly 250,000 visitors a year. The zoo…
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/ September 25, 2026
Audubon Zoo is a 58-acre zoo in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, on the Mississippi River side of Magazine Street. It opened in 1914 and is home to roughly 2,000 animals. It is managed by the Audubon Nature Institute and is accredited by the Association of…
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/ September 25, 2026
Little Dipper is a small wooden roller coaster at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee, Illinois. It is a compact figure-eight ride with gentle hills, dips and turns, and it is built for young riders. It is often a child’s first roller coaster. The ride…
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/ September 24, 2026
Faurot Field at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri, is the home of the Missouri Tigers football team. It opened on October 2, 1926, and is dedicated to the 112 University of Missouri students and alumni who died in World War I. The playing surface has…
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/ September 24, 2026
Andrews Amphitheater, also called Andrews Outdoor Theatre, is an open-air venue on the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa campus in Honolulu. Built of stone in a tiered bowl around a central lawn, it opened on June 20, 1935, and is designed to hold up to…
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/ September 24, 2026
The Wharf Amphitheater is an open-air concert venue in Orange Beach, Alabama, at 23101 Canal Road. It seats about 10,000 people and is one of the largest music venues on the Gulf Coast. It sits inside The Wharf, a waterfront entertainment complex. The venue opened…
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