Public water fountains built during the Ottoman Era still stand throughout this seaside town.

The historic building has preserved human organs, unusual hexagrams, and scars from a political assassination.

This 15th-century island fortress later served as home to the executioners no one wanted to live near.

This legendary city has been a tourist attraction for centuries.

Where commuters walk through remnants of an ancient Greek necropolis.

An ancient octagonal weather station named for the eight Greek gods of wind.

This mystical orb covered in strange symbols is thought to have been used in ancient Greek magical rituals.

Legend says this sacred tree was a gift from goddess Athena.

Stumps of an Ice Age forest, visible only at low tide.

The oldest continuously-operated inn in the United States, once owned by Henry Ford.

Steinbeck's old stomping grounds, immortalized in Cannery Row.

One of the most elaborate displays of Jellyfish is on display at the aquarium.

Fake rail crossings mark the site of an influential doctor's demise.

Guarded by the Angel of Grief, the Stanford family tomb attracts an odd mix of halloween revelry and somber contemplation.

A hidden world of exotic succulents and cacti.

Rodin's famous depiction of Dante's 'Inferno', amidst a sculpture garden of many of his other works.

The world’s first stop-motion film was created on the racetrack outside this building.

A sudden forest of traditional Papua New Guinean art works is hidden in a corner of Stanford University.

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

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

Inside this museum, the history of the Walt Disney Family empire is on full display.

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

San Francisco's oldest surviving monument and meeting place for 1906 survivors.

A pair of mutilated bronze octopuses slump at the base of the monument honoring California's admission to the U.S.