The oldest house in the capital of Silicon Valley.

The headquarters of a secretive order is also a beautifully-designed park.

A giant chess set, minus the psychedelic drug trip.

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

800 apricot trees honor Silicon Valley's agricultural history.

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

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

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

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

Aqueducts have dramatically changed this old lake, now home to tufa towers and its very own species of tiny brine shrimp.

Three bridges and one giant canyon make up this fantastic Spanish settlement.

This 4,000-foot-diameter hole is touted as "the most well known, best preserved meteorite crater on Earth."

San Francisco's newly reopened hands-on science museum.

A hotel and restaurant serving as the mecca of kitsch.

Carnivorous plants, medieval aphrodisiacs, and the largest original wood structure glass conservatory in the western hemisphere.

Odd outsider art installations surround a Gold Rush-era ghost town.

The first declared National Monument in the United States.

The deepest lake in the United States, and once the site of epic destruction that lives on in legends.

Famously misunderstood wonder of the ancient world

This 1,300 year old monastery built atop a single rock was once only accessible depending on the whims of the tide.

In all of the 29 years it was in operation, no prisoners ever escaped successfully... or so they claim.

The fairy tale castle of the “fairy-tale king,” this was also the inspiration for Disney’s “Sleeping Beauty.”