The first high-tech company in the valley that actually worked with silicon devices.

One of the largest free-standing structures ever built, this dirigible hangar is now simply a giant skeleton.

From the Difference Engine to the Cray-1, all under one roof.

An Aladdin's cave of old Silicon Valley tech.

A giant can of fruit cocktail is all that remains of what was once the world's largest cannery.

One of the largest Marian shrines on the West Coast stands rather unexpectedly in Silicon Valley.

The garage at the childhood home of Steve Jobs was a hangout for the founders of Apple, even if they never built computers there.

It is locally loved and ridiculed for literally looking like poop.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

An extensive collection of ancient Egyptian artifacts and mummies.

A life-sized mammoth sculpture marks the spot where the remains of a Columbian mammoth were discovered in 2005.

From the sky, a kaleidoscope of color brightens the grey landscape of the San Francisco Bay.

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

The rest of him lived another 61 years and was buried elsewhere.

A "gravitational anomaly" located in the redwood forests just outside of Santa Cruz, California.

It should come as no surprise that the world's largest artichoke lies in the town that calls itself the "Artichoke Center of the World."

The oldest U.S. Government building in California, and it's State Historic Landmark #1.

A tree grown from astronaut seeds which were exposed to cosmic rays.

A peculiar mansion built by the troubled heir to the Winchester Rifle Company fortune.

At the base of the Golden Gate Bridge, a small sign basically begs for a high-five.

Once the largest windmill outside of Holland, with enormous 114 foot sails.

The key to turning shifting dunes into the green oasis of Golden Gate Park.

The grand, column-fronted, sculpture-adorned home of the ambitious digital library.

Gold Rush ship-turned-hotel buried underneath San Francisco's financial district.