Don’t expect many posts over the next three days or so as all the Google Sightseeing admins are off to Prague for my Stag Weekend. We’ll be back to normal (although possibly a little hung over) on Monday.

Everybody loves the big blue furniture store, sitting here in my living room I can count at least 25 things I’ve purchased from IKEA.

Anyway, they’ve got hundreds of stores and here’s one in Spain (in the flight path to this airport) and another in France (which isn’t near an airport?).

Thanks: Matt & Manuel Fernandez

Near Paris, Le Bourget Airport features the “French Museum of Air and Space” and the Paris Air Show every second year. The airport is most famous as the landing point of Charles Lindbergh’s historic solo transatlantic crossing in 1927 but these days in only used by business jets.

The museum features numerous air and spacecraft, including real-sized copies of Ariane I (shortest) and Ariane V (tallest) space rockets and the first Boeing 747 that Air France had in service. If you look to the entrance of the museum you can see three “Fuga Magister” planes of the French national aerobatics team mounted at funny angles (ground level photos).

Thanks: Julien, Daniel, Daniel, David Bober, Fabien Cornu, Wizou & blouet.

Chicago’s Navy Pier host numerous entertainment facilities including a 148 ft Ferris Wheel, a 44ft high musical carousel with 36 hand-painted animals, the 1500 seat skyline stage, a 7 story Shakespeare theatre complex, an 18 hole mini-golf course, 2 museums (the Children’s Museum and the Smith Museum of Stained Glass Windows), a 40ft high wave swinger, an IMAX theatre and a partridge in a pear tree. (Wikipedia page).

Thanks: Peter & DDA

Bronco Stadium at Boise State University is home to the only blue “Smurf Turf” field in the World. The end-zones say “BOISE STATE BRONCOS”.