This is a list of

tourist attractions A tourist attraction is a place of interest that tourists visit, typically for its inherent or an exhibited natural or cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, offering leisure and amusement. Types Places of natural ...

in and around

Silicon Valley Silicon Valley is a region in Northern California that serves as a global center for high technology and innovation. Located in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay Area, it corresponds roughly to the geographical areas San Mateo Cou ...

, it includes parts or most of

Santa Clara County Santa Clara County, officially the County of Santa Clara, is the sixth-most populous county in the U.S. state of California, with a population of 1,936,259, as of the 2020 census. Santa Clara County and neighboring San Benito County together ...

, San Mateo County, and

Alameda County Alameda County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 census, the population was 1,682,353, making it the 7th-most populous county in the state and 21st most populous nationally. The county seat is Oakland. Alam ...

Arboreta and gardens

* Arizona Cactus Garden, Stanford University *

Chinese Cultural Garden The Chinese Cultural Garden is a section of Overfelt Gardens, in San Jose, California, located in East San Jose. The addition of the Chinese Cultural Garden to Overfelt is primarily the work of Chinese immigrant Frank Lowe, his wife Pauline (who s ...

, San Jose *

Emma Prusch Farm Park Emma Prusch Farm Park is a 43.5 acre (176,000 m²) park in East San Jose, California. Donated by Emma Prusch to the City of San Jose in 1962 to use to demonstrate the valley's agricultural past, it includes a 4-H barn (the largest in San Jose), com ...

, San Jose * Filoli Estate, Woodside *Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto * Hakone Gardens, Saratoga * Japanese Friendship Garden, at Kelley Park, San Jose *

Overfelt Gardens Overfelt Gardens are a park in San Jose, California, located in the Alum Rock district of East San Jose. History The land for the park was donated by Mildred Overfelt in 1959, in memory of her parents, William and Mary Overfelt, early San Jose ...

, East San Jose *

San Jose Municipal Rose Garden The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden is a historic rose garden in San Jose, California, in the Rose Garden District. Founded in 1927, the garden is exclusively dedicated to roses and features more than 3,500 shrubs representing 189 rose varieties. ...

, downtown San Jose *San Mateo Japanese Tea Garden,

Central Park Central Park is an urban park in New York City located between the Upper West and Upper East Sides of Manhattan. It is the fifth-largest park in the city, covering . It is the most visited urban park in the United States, with an estimated ...

, San Mateo, designed by

Nagao Sakurai Nagao Sakurai（桜井長雄） (November 5, 1896 – July 1973) of the Imperial Palace of Tokyo was a landscape architect. Notable designs *Japanese Tea Garden, Central Park, San Mateo, California. * Nishinomiya Japanese Garden, in the M ...

. * Stanford University Arboretum, Stanford University * Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga

Cultural

Art

This is a list of Silicon Valley art museums and art collectives/cooperatives. *

New Museum Los Gatos New Museum Los Gatos (NUMU), formerly the Museums of Los Gatos founded in 1965, is a public non-profit art and history museum located in the Civic Center Plaza in downtown Los Gatos, California. NUMU’s mission is to engage the community at the i ...

, Los Gatos * The Anderson Collection, at Stanford University, Stanford *

Allied Arts Guild Allied Arts Guild was founded in 1928 and is a complex of artist studios, shops, restaurant, and gardens in Menlo Park, California and is used as a venue for both public and private events. It is run by the Allied Arts Guild Auxiliary to provide f ...

, Menlo Park *

De Saisset Museum The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University opened in 1955, after Isabel de Saisset, the last member of a California pioneer family bequeathed her estate to the University of Santa Clara. The museum owns nearly 10,000 art pieces and historical ...

, at

Santa Clara University Santa Clara University is a private Jesuit university in Santa Clara, California. Established in 1851, Santa Clara University is the oldest operating institution of higher learning in California. The university's campus surrounds the historic Mis ...

, Santa Clara * Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is conside ...

, Stanford * The Lace Museum, Sunnyvale *

Pacific Art League The Pacific Art League (PAL), formally known as the Palo Alto Art Club was founded in 1921 in Palo Alto, California and is a membership-run nonprofit arts organization, school, and gallery. The group is located in a historic building at 668 Ram ...

, Palo Alto *

Palo Alto Art Center The Palo Alto Art Center is a multi-purpose center open to the public for art activities for all ages, located at 1313 Newell Road in Palo Alto, California. It is managed by the City of Palo Alto, California and supported by the non-profit Pa ...

, Palo Alto * San Jose Museum of Art, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles The San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1977, the museum is the first in the United States devoted solely to quilts and textiles as an art form. Holdings include a permanent coll ...

, San Jose *

The Foster Museum The Foster Museum is a private non-profit single-artist museum located in Palo Alto, California, United States dedicated to the watercolor wilderness Journeys of artist-explorer Tony Foster (1946–). It houses the permanent collection of the Fo ...

, Palo Alto *

Triton Museum of Art The Triton Museum of Art is a contemporary art museum located at 1505 Warburton Avenue in Santa Clara, California. History The museum was founded in 1965 in San Jose, California, by rancher, lawyer and art patron W. Robert Morgan and his wife J ...

, Santa Clara *

Montalvo Arts Center The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States. Open to the public, Montalvo comprises a cultural and arts center, a park, hiking trails and the historic Villa Montalvo, an Italian Mediterran ...

, Saratoga, California

Dance

Ballet San Jose Ballet San Jose was a ballet company based in San Jose, California, US, operating from 1985 to 2016. History The company was founded in 1985 as the "San Jose Cleveland Ballet," a co-venture with the ten-year-old Cleveland Ballet which offered to ...

, downtown San Jose (closed 2018) * sjDANCEco, downtown San Jose

Estate

, San Jose * Filoli Estate, Woodside * Gamble Gardens, Palo Alto * Rengstorff House, Mountain View *

Villa Montalvo The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States. Open to the public, Montalvo comprises a cultural and arts center, a park, hiking trails and the historic Villa Montalvo, an Italian Mediterra ...

, Saratoga *

Winchester Mystery House The Winchester Mystery House is a mansion in San Jose, California, that was once the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of firearms magnate William Wirt Winchester. The house became a tourist attraction nine months after Wi ...

, West San Jose

Faith-based

* Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, downtown San José *

Five Wounds Portuguese National Church Five Wounds Portuguese National Church ( pt, Igreja Nacional Portuguesa das Cinco Chagas) is parish church of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in San Jose, California, in the Little Portugal, San Jose, Little Portugal neighborhood of E ...

, Little Portugal, San Jose *

Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose The Sikh Gurdwara of San Jose is a gurdwara (a Sikh place of worship) located in the Evergreen district of San Jose, California. It was founded in 1984 by leaders of the then-rapidly growing community of Sikhs in the area. It is the largest Gurdwar ...

, East San Jose * Stanford Memorial Church, at Stanford University

Historical

* Burlingame Museum of PEZ Memorabilia, Burlingame *

Circle of Palms Plaza The Circle of Palms Plaza is located in downtown San Jose, California. It is composed of a ring of palm trees encircling a California State Seal, and designates the California Historical Marker 461, the site of California's first state capital ...

, downtown San Jose * De Anza Hotel, downtown San Jose * Forbes Mill, Los Gatos * Hangar One, Mountain View *

Hiller Aviation Museum The Hiller Aviation Museum is an aircraft history museum located at the San Carlos Airport in San Carlos, California. The museum was founded by Stanley Hiller in June 1998. and is endowed by members of the Hiller family. It specializes in North ...

, San Carlos * History Park at Kelley Park, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose) * Japanese American Museum of San Jose, San Jose *Little Italy San Jose, San Jose *

Mexican Heritage Plaza The Mexican Heritage Plaza - Centro Cultural de San José is a Chicano/Mexican-American cultural center in San Jose, California, located in the Mayfair neighborhood of East San Jose. History Mexican Heritage Plaza opened in 1999. It is operated ...

, East San Jose * Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto *

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, Quicksilver Mining Museum *The

HP Garage The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard (HP) was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley". In the 1930s, Stanford University and its ...

, Palo Alto *

Los Altos History Museum The Los Altos History Museum (LAHM) is a museum in Los Altos, California. Founded in 2001, the museum showcases the history of Los Altos and surrounding areas, including the transformation of the agricultural paradise once known as the "Valley of H ...

, Los Altos * Peralta Adobe, downtown San Jose *

Portuguese Historical Museum The Portuguese Historical Museum in San Jose, California, USA opened in 1997 and is a replica of the first permanent ''império'' (religious and cultural buildings primarily in the Azores) originally built in San Jose's Little Portugal district, c ...

, East San Jose *

Viet Museum The Viet Museum ( vi, Viện Bảo Tàng Việt Nam) or the Museum of the Boat People & the Republic of Vietnam is a museum focusing on the experience of Vietnamese Americans and their journey from Vietnam to the United States. It is located in Gr ...

, East San Jose *

Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum (REM) is devoted to ancient Egypt, located at Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States. It was founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC). The Rosi ...

, downtown San Jose * San Mateo County History Museum, downtown Redwood City *

, downtown San Jose *

Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum The Sunnyvale Heritage Park Museum is a historical museum located in Sunnyvale, California. It is a replica of the original Martin Murphy family home. The Martin Murphy family, founders of the City of Sunnyvale, constructed the house in the 1850 ...

, Sunnyvale *

, West San Jose

Music

* Choral Project, downtown San Jose * Fox Theatre, Redwood City * Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies, downtown San Jose *

Opera San Jose Opera is a form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers. Such a "work" (the literal translation of the Italian word "opera") is typically a collaboration between a composer and a librett ...

, downtown San Jose *

Symphony Silicon Valley Symphony Silicon Valley is the professional symphony orchestra of San Jose and the South Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in 2002 following the demise of the San Jose Symphony, the orchestra debuted to rave reviews and standing ...

, downtown San Jose * Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose, San Jose

Theatre

Broadway by the Bay Broadway by the Bay, is a community-based musical theatre company located in the San Francisco Bay Area and performing in Redwood City. It also provides a "Theatre Arts Academy" offering performing arts experiences to local children. After beginni ...

, Redwood City * City Lights Theater Company of San Jose, San Jose * Hillbarn Theatre, Foster City * Los Altos Stage Company, Los Altos * Montgomery Theater, San Jose * Palo Alto Players Theatre Company, Palo Alto * Pear Theatre, Mountain View * Portola Valley Theatre Conservatory, Portola Valley * Ram's Head Theatrical Society, Stanford University *

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts The San Jose Center for the Performing Arts is a performing arts venue located in Downtown San Jose, California. It opened in 1972 and is now home to San Jose Dance Theatre and Broadway San Jose. History The theater opened in 1972 the architect w ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Improv The San Jose Improv is a comedy club located in San Jose, California. History Formerly known as the ''Jose Theater'', built in 1904, is the oldest theater in San Jose, located on Second Street, near San Fernando Street. Construction of the Jo ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Repertory Theatre The San Jose Repertory Theatre (a.k.a. San Jose Rep) was the first resident professional theatre company in San Jose, California. It was founded in 1980 by James P. Reber. In 2008, after the demise of the American Musical Theatre of San Jose, th ...

, downtown San Jose * San Jose Stage Company, San Jose * Sierra Repertory Theatre, San Jose * Sunnyvale Community Players, Sunnyvale * Tabard Theatre Company, San Jose * TheatreWorks Theatre Company, Palo Alto and Mountain View

Children's Theatre

* Children's Musical Theatre San Jose, San Jose * Palo Alto Children's Theatre Company, Palo Alto * Peninsula Youth Theatre, Mountain View * Pied Piper Players, San Mateo * Roberta Jones Junior Theatre, Santa Clara * San Carlos Children's Theater, San Carlos * Silicon Valley Children's Musical Theater, San Jose * Willow Glen Children's Theatre, San Jose

Other

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library (also known locally as the MLK Library or the King Library) is an 8-story public library and university library, located in downtown San Jose, California, which had its grand opening on August 16, 2003. , i ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Jose City Hall San José City Hall is the seat of the municipal government of San Jose, California. Located in Downtown San Jose, it was designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier in a Postmodern style. It consists of an 18-story tower, an ic ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Flea Market The San Jose Flea Market, located in Berryessa district of San Jose, California, was founded by George Bumb Sr. in March 1960. He had the idea to open a flea market while working in the solid waste and landfill business. He witnessed abundant i ...

, Berryessa (northeast San Jose)

Event venues

This is a list of larger event venues. *

Avaya Stadium PayPal Park (formerly Earthquakes Stadium and Avaya Stadium) is a soccer-specific stadium in San Jose, California, San Jose, California, United States, and is the home of Major League Soccer's San Jose Earthquakes. The stadium is located on the ...

, San Jose *

Buck Shaw Stadium Stevens Stadium is a 7,000-seat soccer stadium on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. The stadium is the current home of the Santa Clara Broncos soccer teams and wa ...

, Santa Clara * California Theatre, downtown San Jose *City National Civic Events, San Jose *

Event Center Arena The Provident Credit Union Event Center, formerly and more commonly known as the Event Center Arena, is a complex consisting of an indoor arena and a fitness club on the main campus of San Jose State University in downtown San Jose, California. ...

, downtown San Jose * The Flint Center for the Performing Arts, Cupertino *

Levi's Stadium Levi's Stadium is an American football stadium located in Santa Clara, California, just outside San Jose in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has served as the home venue for the National Football League (NFL)'s San Francisco 49ers since 201 ...

, Santa Clara *Lucie Stern Theater, Palo Alto *Montgomery Theater, San Jose *

, downtown San Jose * San Jose Civic Auditorium, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Convention Center The San Jose McEnery Convention Center (commonly known simply as the San Jose Convention Center) is a convention center in Downtown San Jose, California. The facility is the largest convention center in Silicon Valley. It is known for hostin ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Municipal Stadium Excite Ballpark, previously known as San Jose Municipal Stadium or Muni Stadium, is a baseball park in San Jose, California. It is the home of the Minor League Baseball San Jose Giants, an affiliate of the San Francisco Giants. The team plays i ...

, downtown San Jose *

Santa Clara Convention Center The Santa Clara Convention Center is located in northern Santa Clara, California. It serves as one of the large meeting and convention facilities in Silicon Valley, with of meeting space. It was built in 1986 and expanded in 2009. The conventio ...

, Santa Clara *

SAP Center at San Jose The SAP Center at San Jose (originally known as San Jose Arena and the HP Pavilion at San Jose) is an indoor arena located in San Jose, California. Its primary tenant is the San Jose Sharks of the National Hockey League, for which the arena has ...

, downtown San Jose *

Shoreline Amphitheatre Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater located in Mountain View, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The venue has a capacity of 22,500, with 6,500 reserved seats and 16,000 general admission on the lawn. When the parking lot ...

, Mountain View * Spartan Stadium, downtown San Jose *

Stanford Stadium Stanford Stadium is an outdoor college football stadium on the west coast of the United States, located on the campus of Stanford University in Stanford, California. It is the home of the Stanford Cardinal and hosts the university's commencemen ...

, Stanford

Events

* BayCon, Santa Clara * Christmas in the Park, downtown San Jose *

Cinequest Film Festival The Cinequest Film & Creativity Festival is an annual independent film festival held each March in San Jose, California and Redwood City, California. The international festival combines the cinematic arts with Silicon Valley’s innovation. It is ...

, multiple venues * FanimeCon, downtown San Jose *Los Altos Art and Wine Festival, Los Altos *Mountain View Art and Wine Festival, Mountain View *Palo Alto Festival of the Arts, Palo Alto * San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, downtown San Jose *

San Jose Bike Party San Jose Bike Party is a monthly social bicycle ride event in and around San Jose, California held on the third Friday of every month. Attendance varies with weather and time of year, usually ranging from hundreds in the winter months to lo ...

, monthly bicycle ride in San Jose area, different route each time *

San Jose Jazz Festival The San José Jazz Summer Fest (originally known as the San Jose Jazz Festival) is an annual music festival organized by non-profit San Jose Jazz and held in downtown San Jose, California. The festival was established in 1990. The festival beg ...

, downtown San Jose * Stanford Jazz Festival, Stanford University

Parks and trails

* Almaden Lake Park, South San Jose * Almaden Quicksilver County Park, South San Jose *

Alum Rock Park Alum Rock Park, in the Alum Rock district of San Jose, California, is California's oldest municipal park, established in 1872 but serving as public land since the pueblo was established in 1777. Located in a valley in the Diablo Range foothills ...

, East San Jose *

Bay Area Ridge Trail The Bay Area Ridge Trail (Ridge Trail) is a planned multi-use trail along the hill and mountain ridgelines ringing the San Francisco Bay Area, in Northern California. Currently, have been established. When complete, the trail will connect ov ...

, surrounds and crosses the valley * Belgatos Park and connected Heintz, and Santa Rosa open space preserves, Los Gatos *

Big Basin Redwoods State Park Big Basin Redwoods State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of California, located in Santa Cruz County, about northwest of Santa Cruz. The park contains almost all of the Waddell Creek watershed, which was formed by the seismic uplift ...

, Santa Cruz Mountains * Castle Rock State Park, Santa Cruz Mountains *

Coyote Creek Trail The Coyote Creek Trail is a pedestrian and cycling trail along Coyote Creek in San Jose, California, which continues into Coyote Valley and northern Morgan Hill. The Coyote Creek Trail was designated part of the National Recreation Trail sys ...

, San Jose to Morgan Hill * Ed R. Levin County Park, Milpitas *

Fremont Older Open Space Preserve Fremont Older Open Space Preserve is a regional park located in Santa Clara County, California and operated by the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District. The preserve contains 14.7 miles (23.7 km) of hiking trails, nearly all open to e ...

, Saratoga *

Grant Ranch Park Joseph D. Grant County Park is the largest county park in Santa Clara County, California. Also known as Grant Ranch Park, this site is situated in the Diablo Range foothills of the eastern Santa Clara Valley. The park is one of 28 owned by Santa ...

, East San Jose/Mount Hamilton *

Guadalupe River Trail The Guadalupe River Trail is an pedestrian and bicycle path in the city of San Jose, California. The path runs along the banks of the Guadalupe River. The trail is currently composed of two discontinuous segments: a short segment along the Upp ...

, downtown San Jose, Willow Glen and South San Jose *

Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a state park of California, United States, preserving mainly forest and riparian areas in the watershed of the San Lorenzo River, including a grove of old-growth coast redwood. It is located in Santa Cruz Coun ...

, Santa Cruz Mountains * Kelley Park, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose) *

Lake Cunningham __NOTOC__ Lake Cunningham is an artificial lake in Lake Cunningham Park, in East San Jose, California, near the Eastridge Mall and Eastridge Transit Center. It is not a geological feature recognized in the Geographic Names Information System ( ...

, East San Jose *

Los Alamitos Creek Trail Alamitos Creek or Los Alamitos Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed March 15, 2011 creek in San Jose, California, which becomes the Guadalupe River when it exit ...

, South San Jose * Los Gatos Creek Trail, West San Jose, Campbell and Los Gatos *

Mission Peak Mission Peak is a mountain peak located east of Fremont, California. It is the northern summit on a ridge that includes Mount Allison and Monument Peak. Mission Peak has symbolic importance, and is depicted on the logo of the City of Fremont. It ...

, Fremont, California *

Plaza de César Chávez The Plaza de César Chávez is an urban plaza and park in Downtown San Jose, California. The plaza's origins date to 1797 as the ''plaza mayor'' of the Alta California, Spanish ''Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe'', making it the oldest public sp ...

, downtown San Jose *

Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve Rancho or Ranchos may refer to: Settlements and communities *Rancho, Aruba, former fishing village and neighbourhood of Oranjestad * Ranchos of California, 19th century land grants in Alta California **List of California Ranchos * Ranchos, Buenos ...

, Santa Cruz Mountains *

Rosicrucian Park Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, located in San Jose, California. History The Rosicrucian Park was established in 1927 by Harvey Spencer Lewis. It grew fr ...

, downtown San Jose *

San Francisco Bay Trail The San Francisco Bay Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that when finished will allow continuous travel around the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. As of 2020, of the trail have been completed. When finished, the trail will be over of p ...

, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Milpitas *

Sanborn Park Sanborn County Park is a 3,453 acre (13.97 km2) county park situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains, managed by the Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department. The deeply forested park features over 15 miles of trails, second-growth redwoods, ...

, Saratoga and Santa Cruz Mountains * Santa Teresa County Park, South San Jose * Shoreline Park, Mountain View, Mountain View *

Stevens Creek Trail Stevens Creek is a creek in Santa Clara County, California. The creek originates in the Santa Cruz Mountains on the western flank of Black Mountain in the Monte Bello Open Space Preserve near the terminus of Page Mill Road at Skyline Boulevar ...

, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Mountain View * Uvas Canyon County Park, west of Morgan Hill *

Vasona Park Vasona Lake County Park is a park located in Los Gatos, California and part of the Santa Clara County Parks system. Vasona Park surrounds the Vasona Reservoir. Adjacent to the park are the Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, a ridable miniature railway ...

, Los Gatos * Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga See additional parks, hiking trails, and open space preserves at:

Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department Santa Clara County Parks and Recreation Department, sometimes referred to as Santa Clara County Parks Department or Santa Clara County Parks, is a government department in Santa Clara County, California. The department manages 29 parks with a total ...

Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District Formed in 1972 by voter initiative, the Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) is a non-enterprise special district in the San Francisco Bay Area. It has acquired and preserved a regional green belt of open space land and provides o ...

Science, technology and education

* Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose, downtown San Jose *

Computer History Museum The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California. The museum presents stories and artifacts of Silicon Valley and the information age, and explores the computing revolution and its impact o ...

, Mountain View *

CuriOdyssey CuriOdyssey is a science museum and zoo for children and families where visitors can see wild animals up-close and visit interactive science exhibits. CuriOdyssey is home to nearly 100 rescued animals, most native to California, that cannot survi ...

, Coyote Point Recreation Area, San Mateo * DeAnza College Fujitsu Planetarium, Cupertino *EcoCenter, Palo Alto Baylands, Palo Alto *

Lick Observatory The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by the University of California. It is on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, United States. The observatory is managed by t ...

, Mount Hamilton, San Jose * Museum of American Heritage, Palo Alto *

NASA Ames Exploration Center The NASA Gift Shop in Silicon Valley (also called the NASA Ames Visitor Center) is a visitor center at the entrance of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, California. The center has the following exhibits: * The Mercury-Redstone 1A caps ...

, Mountain View * Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo, Palo Alto * San Jose electric light tower (model, in History Park at Kelley Park, San Jose) *

San Jose State University San José State University (San Jose State or SJSU) is a public university in San Jose, California. Established in 1857, SJSU is the oldest public university on the West Coast and the founding campus of the California State University (CSU) ...

, downtown San Jose *

, Santa Clara *

, Stanford *

The Tech Interactive The Tech Interactive (formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation, commonly known as The Tech) is a science and technology center that offers hands-on activities, labs, design challenges and other STEAM education resources. It is located in downtown Sa ...

, formerly The Tech Museum of Innovation, downtown San Jose

Technology campuses

Apple Park Apple Park is the corporate headquarters of Apple Inc., located in Cupertino, California, United States. It was opened to employees in April 2017, while construction was still underway, and superseded the original headquarters at 1 Infinite ...

, Cupertino *

Facebook Facebook is an online social media and social networking service owned by American company Meta Platforms. Founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dust ...

headquarters, Menlo Park *

Googleplex The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google and its parent company, Alphabet Inc. It is located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, California. The original complex, with of office space, is the company's second l ...

, Mountain View *

Intel Museum The Intel Museum located at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, United States, has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general. The museum is open weekdays and Saturdays except holidays. ...

, Intel campus, Santa Clara

Shopping

Eastridge Center Eastridge, officially Eastridge Center, is a shopping mall in San Jose, California, located in the Evergreen district of East San Jose. Eastridge opened as the largest mall on the West Coast in 1971 and has been redesigned multiple times throug ...

, East San Jose *

Great Mall of the Bay Area The Great Mall of the Bay Area (often simply called The Great Mall) is a large indoor outlet shopping mall in Milpitas, California built by Ford Motor Land Development and Petrie Dierman Kughn in 1994. It was acquired by Mills Corporation in 200 ...

, Milpitas * Hillsdale Shopping Center, San Mateo * Pruneyard Shopping Center, Campbell *

San Antonio Shopping Center San Antonio Shopping Center is an outdoor shopping mall located on El Camino Real at San Antonio Road in Mountain View, California. The shopping center consists of two areas, owned by two separate companies. The namesake San Antonio Shopping Cent ...

, Mountain View *

Santana Row Santana Row (abbreviated as SR or The Row) is a residential and commercial district of West San Jose in San Jose, California. Santana Row is intersected by Stevens Creek Boulevard, a major thoroughfare, and close to local landmarks like Westfield ...

, West San Jose *

Stanford Shopping Center Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on Route 82 ( El Camino Real) at Sand Hill Road in Palo Alto, California. It is on the campus of Stanford University although the university only owns the land and not the ac ...

, Palo Alto *

Westfield Oakridge Westfield Oakridge, commonly known as Oakridge, is a shopping mall in San Jose, California, located in the Blossom Valley neighborhood of South San Jose. Established in 1971, Oakridge has been redeveloped multiple times in its history, most rece ...

, South San Jose *

Westfield Valley Fair Westfield Valley Fair, commonly known as Valley Fair, is a prominent shopping mall in San Jose, California. Valley Fair is the largest mall, by area, in Northern California and has higher sales revenue than all other malls in California, includin ...

, West San Jose * Westgate Mall, West San Jose

Theme parks and tours

Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad William Jones (1884–1968), a seasoned veteran of the steam era who established the Wildcat Railroad in Los Gatos, California, was born the son of a teamster in the town of Ben Lomond, California, USA. Jones found employment as an engine wiper at ...

, Los Gatos *

California's Great America California's Great America, often shortened to Great America, is a amusement park located in Santa Clara, California. Owned and operated by Cedar Fair, it originally opened in 1976 as one of two parks built by the Marriott Corporation. Califor ...

, Santa Clara (formerly "''Paramount's Great America''") * Gilroy Gardens, Gilroy (formerly "''Bonfante Gardens''") * Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, Willow Glen (south-central San Jose) *

Raging Waters Raging Waters are a chain of four water theme parks in Sacramento, San Dimas, San Jose, California, and Sydney, Australia. The parks are operated by Palace Entertainment and owned by its parent company Parques Reunidos, but they each contain d ...

, East San Jose * Roaring Camp & Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad, Santa Cruz Mountains

Vineyards and wineries

* Byington Vineyard, Los Gatos * David Bruce Winery, Los Gatos * J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines, downtown San Jose *

Mountain Winery The Mountain Winery, formerly the Paul Masson Mountain Winery, is a winery in Saratoga, California, United States, North America. It was founded by Paul Masson, a pioneer of the California wine industry. The winery became famous for its slogan, vo ...

, Saratoga * Picchetti Brothers Winery, Cupertino * Rabbits Foot Meadery, Sunnyvale * Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards, Saratoga

References

External links

Things to do
at City of San Jose
Activities
at San Jose/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau
List of attractions
at SanJose.com
List of events
at ''San Jose Mercury News''
Moffett Field Museum and ToursJapanese American Museum of San Jose and Tours
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Art

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Historical

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Theatre

Children's Theatre

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Event venues

Events

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Technology campuses

Shopping

Theme parks and tours

Vineyards and wineries

See also

References

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