A pair of pure white felines guard the entrance to a spot of California real estate established as an artist's haven.

This 252 step staircase offers stunning views of San Jose.

Elephant seals and sea lions have turned the abandoned buildings on this island into their endangered love shack.

A lonely monument to the original Silicon Valley tech campus.

A mesmerizing disco ball-like sculpture along the Sacramento River Walk.

Puzzling...this tree looks like an assemblage of dismembered monkey limbs.

Each summer, the migratory bats living beneath the bypass form "batnadoes" at dusk.

A New England-style lighthouse along California's beautiful Highway 1 gets a re-do.

A statue commemorate Tommie Smith and John Carlos's brave protest at the 1968 Olympics, a watershed moment for civil rights.

Outsider art or homage to aliens?

For roadside fast food, pull over at the giant orange.

Three plaques mark the spot where the "forgotten father of broadcasting" worked.

Anyone can control this glittery light installation with just a phone call.

This graffiti-covered bridge is the quintessential vision of a place for disillusioned youth to escape the complexities of burgeoning adulthood.

This corn maze so big you may want to pack a lunch, and possibly a flaregun.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

The fossilized remains of ancient California redwoods.

California's own medieval Italian castle, authentic down to the 300-year-old iron maiden in the dungeon.

Today's aerospace industry can be traced back to one man and his gliders.

A plaque outside the San Jose airport commemorates the insect's arrival to the West Coast.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

The headquarters of the semiconductor giant has a 10,000-square-foot museum.

Hand-powered race of alternative forms of transportation.

Location of the most powerful laser in the world, and the potential birthplace of tiny stars.