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Playing a road game in any sport is rarely a walk in the park. While the atmosphere in some stadiums is so blase that youâ€d hardly know who the home team is, the majority of venues are less hospitable to the visitor. Even fewer fields are so raucous that the visitor is either at a real disadvantage, or heâ€s made miserable enough to just want to get the game over with and get out of there. Here are the top 10 most intimidating stadiums in North American professional sports.

Still, Oasis' enormous size â€" in terms of volume, five times as big as the Titanicâ€" is just part of the reason many industry watchers are calling it a game-changer. Just as notable: on-board amenities that encompass everything from a open-air "Central Park" with live trees to a family-friendly amusement area called the Boardwalk.

Roller-coaster and thrill-ride manufacturers from around the world descended on Las Vegas this week for the annual amusement park convention, offering a sneak peek at what we can expect to see in 2010 and beyond.

Time and again, all you see are lists of how great places are. Live here, buy there, the biggest places, the tallest places. Enough already! Every city from the smallest village to the largest metropolis has its pros and cons. We already know plenty about why these cities are great, now letâ€s take look at why they also can suck.

There's a unique sense of peace and quiet to be found in the middle of some of the country's busiest places.

Stairs arenâ€t just a boring, utilitarian part of our homes and public buildings. Theyâ€re an opportunity for an architect to really make a statement and do something bold and distinctive. From staircases that float to stairs that fit in impossibly tiny spaces to staircases that go nowhere, this often-overlooked part of everyday architecture is being rethought by many designers and architects. Youâ€ll see no beige-carpeted run-of-the-mill staircases here; these are some (more!) of the best, strangest, and most beautiful staircases in the world.

Holiday travelers particularly risk raising the ire of grizzled business fliers, who depend on strict adherence to a set of written and unwritten rules to get them on and off of planes efficiently.

Thanks to the apps that come pre-packaged with the iPhone and the more than 100,000 third-party offerings now available in the iTunes Store, the iPhone has gained functionality that might have seemed hard to fathom under three years ago when Steve Jobs first announced the device.