Arboreta and Gardens

• Arizona Cactus Garden
  Arizona Cactus Garden
  The Arizona Cactus Garden , also known as the Stanford Cactus Garden, is a botanical garden specializing in cactus and succulents. It is located on the campus of Stanford University , Stanford, California, USA, and open to the public daily without charge.-History:The garden...
  
  , Stanford University
• Chinese Cultural Garden
  Chinese Cultural Garden
  The Chinese Cultural Garden occupies of Overfelt Gardens park in San Jose, California. The addition of the Chinese Cultural Garden to Overfelt is primarily the work of Chinese immigrant Frank Lowe, his wife Pauline , and Dr...
  
  , San Jose
• Emma Prusch Farm Park
  Emma Prusch Farm Park
  -History:The land for this farm park was donated by Emma Prusch to San Jose, California in 1962 to keep for agricultural purposes, and provides an introduction to farm life. The park is operated as a small farm by the City of San Jose, Department of Parks, Recreation, and Neighborhood Services...
  
  , San Jose
• Hakone Gardens
  Hakone Gardens
  Hakone Gardens is a traditional Japanese garden in Saratoga, California, USA. It claims to be the oldest Japanese-style residential garden in the Western Hemisphere...
  
  , Saratoga
• Japanese Friendship Garden
  Japanese Friendship Garden (Kelley Park)
  The Japanese Friendship Garden is a walled section of Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA. Dedicated in October 1965, it is patterned after Japan's famous Korakuen Garden in Okayama . The three main ponds were stocked with koi sent from Okayama in 1966...
  
   at Kelley Park in San Jose
• Overfelt Gardens
  Overfelt Gardens
  Overfelt Gardens is a park in San Jose, California, USA.-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 pioneers that started grain and dairy farms in the 1860s....
  
  , East San Jose
• San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
  San Jose Municipal Rose Garden
  The San Jose Municipal Rose Garden is a rose garden located at the intersection of Naglee Avenue and Dana Avenue, San Jose, California, in the Rose Garden neighborhood. It is open to the public daily without charge. Dogs are not allowed....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Stanford University Arboretum
  Stanford University Arboretum
  The Stanford University Arboretum is an arboretum located on the grounds of Stanford University in Stanford, California. It is open to the public daily without charge....
  
  , Stanford University
• Villa Montalvo Arboretum, Saratoga

Cultural

• Ballet San Jose
  Ballet San Jose
  Ballet San Jose in San Jose, California, USA, was founded in 1986 as the "San Jose Cleveland Ballet," a co-venture with the ten-year old Cleveland Ballet which offered to the dancers added performing exposure, and each city a ballet company for a moderate, shared investment...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Cathedral Basilica of St. Joseph, downtown San Jose
• Choral Project
  The Choral Project
  Based in San Jose, California, The Choral Project is a mixed-voice choir founded in 1996 by artistic director and conductor Daniel D. Hughes...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• De Saisset Museum
  De Saisset Museum
  The de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University opened in the early 1950s after Isabel de Saisset, the last member of a French pioneer family bequeathed her estate to the University of Santa Clara...
  
  , Santa Clara
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library
  The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library is a 136 foot tall public library in Downtown San Jose, California, United States that opened on August 1, 2003. As of 2007, it is the largest library building in the western United States built in a single construction project with over 475,000 square feet ...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Gurdwara Sahib of San Jose, East San Jose
• Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
  Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies
  The Ira F. Brilliant Center for Beethoven Studies serves as a museum, research center, and host of lectures and performances devoted solely to the life and works of Ludwig van Beethoven. It is the only institution of its kind in North America and holds the largest collection of Beethoven works and...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Mexican Heritage Plaza
  Mexican Heritage Plaza
  The Mexican Heritage Plaza is a museum and cultural center in San José, California, USA that opened in 1999. It is operated by the City of San Jose....
  
  , East San Jose
• Opera San Jose
  Opera San Jose
  Opera San José is the professional opera company in San Jose, California, United States, founded in 1984 by Irene Dalis. In 1988, it formed a resident company of principal artists, for which it has purchased fourteen apartment units to provide rent-free accommodation...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose City Hall
  San Jose City Hall
  The current City Hall of San José California was opened to the public on October 15, 2005, and is located at 200 East Santa Clara Street, San José, California. It was designed by Richard Meier.- History :...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Flea Market
  San Jose Flea Market
  The San Jose Flea Market, located in the heart of the Silicon Valley, was founded by George Bumb Sr. in March 1960. His idea to open a flea market sparked while working in the solid waste and landfill business. He witnessed an abundance of treasures thrown away every day and realized he could make...
  
  , Berryessa (northeast San Jose)
• San Jose Improv
  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 Jose was started in 1903, under the ownership of David Jacks,...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Museum of Art
  San Jose Museum of Art
  The San Jose Museum of Art is an art museum in Downtown San Jose, California, USA. Founded in 1969, the museum hosts a large permanent collection emphasizing West Coast artists of the 20th- and 21st-century. It is located next to the Circle of Palms Plaza and Plaza de César Chávez...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Repertory Theatre
  San Jose Repertory Theatre
  The San Jose Repertory Theatre was founded in 1980 by James P. Reber as the first resident professional theatre company in San Jose, California, and is currently the largest non-profit, professional theatre company in the South Bay...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Symphony
  San Jose Symphony
  The San Jose Symphony Orchestra was a symphony orchestra performing in San Jose, California. It performed in the Civic Auditorium through 1971, and the Center for the Performing Arts afterwards until its suspension and dissolution in 2001...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Viet Museum
  Viet Museum
  The Viet Museum is a museum focusing on the experience of Vietnamese Americans and their journey from Vietnam to the United States. It is located in the historical Kelley Park in San Jose, California, United States and was opened on August 25, 2007....
  
  , East San Jose
• Villa Montalvo
  Villa Montalvo
  Villa Montalvo is an Italian Mediterranean style mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in Saratoga, California, United States. It was constructed from 1912 to 1914 by California statesman and businessman James Duval Phelan. After Phelan's death, it was donated to the state...
  
  , Saratoga
• Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose
  Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose
  The Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose is a choral program for children from ages four to eighteen. Youth from throughout the Silicon Valley participate in six program levels. The chorus offers a well-rounded program that balances vocal training, music theory, and performances. Upper choir levels take...
  
  , San Jose

Event venues

• Buck Shaw Stadium
  Buck Shaw Stadium
  Buck Shaw Stadium is a 10,300-seat soccer stadium at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California. The stadium is the current home of the Santa Clara Broncos soccer teams and was the former home of the now defunct Santa Clara football team as well as the Santa Clara baseball team. The baseball...
  
  , Santa Clara
• California Theatre (San Jose), downtown San Jose
• Event Center Arena
  The Event Center Arena
  The Event Center Arena is a 5,000-seat multi-purpose arena, on the main campus of San José State University, in downtown San Jose, California. The Event Center was built in 1989 and is home to the SJSU Spartans men's and women's basketball teams....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• HP Pavilion at San Jose, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, downtown San Jose
• San Jose Civic Auditorium
  San Jose Civic Auditorium
  San Jose Civic Auditorium, known as the San Jose Civic, is a sports arena and concert venue, located in downtown San Jose, California. The 3,000-seat venue is owned by the City of San Jose, is managed by Team San Jose and is booked by Nederlander Concerts.It was created through a joint venture...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Convention Center
  San Jose Convention Center
  The San Jose Convention Center is the main convention center for the city of San Jose, California. It is located in close proximity to several others of San Jose's convention and cultural structures. Its formal name is the San Jose McEnery Convention Center, in recognition of former mayor Tom...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Municipal Stadium
  San Jose Municipal Stadium
  The San Jose Municipal Stadium, or Muni Stadium in common usage, is the home of the minor league baseball San Jose Giants, the Advanced A league affiliate of the San Francisco Giants located in San Jose, California. The Giants play in the northern division of the California League...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Repertory Theatre
  San Jose Repertory Theatre
  The San Jose Repertory Theatre was founded in 1980 by James P. Reber as the first resident professional theatre company in San Jose, California, and is currently the largest non-profit, professional theatre company in the South Bay...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Santa Clara Convention Center
  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....
  
  , Santa Clara
• Shoreline Amphitheatre
  Shoreline Amphitheatre
  Shoreline Amphitheatre is an outdoor amphitheater, in Mountain View, California, USA, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Inside the venue it has a capacity of 22,500, with 6,500 reserved seats and 16,000 general admission on the lawn...
  
  , Mountain View
• Spartan Stadium
  Spartan Stadium (San Jose)
  Spartan Stadium, located in San Jose, California, is the official stadium of the San José State University Spartans athletics teams. It is currently the home of the Spartan football and soccer teams....
  
  , downtown San Jose

Events

• BayCon
  BayCon
  BayCon is the San Francisco Bay Area's main science fiction and fantasy convention. It is held over Memorial Day weekend in Santa Clara, California. BayCon is a large convention topping two thousand attendees over the last several years. The convention draws many attendees from throughout...
  
  , Santa Clara
• Christmas in the Park, downtown San Jose
• Cinequest Film Festival
  Cinequest Film Festival
  The Cinequest Film Festival is an annual independent film festival held in San Jose, California. The festival highlights the work of new film makers....
  
  , multiple venues
• Embedded Systems Conference
  Embedded Systems Conference
  The Embedded Systems Conference is a conference and expo that takes place in six locations around the world. ESC is the largest gathering for System Architects and Design Engineers, focusing on networking, innovation and training...
  
  , San Jose McEnery Convention Center
• FanimeCon
  FanimeCon
  FanimeCon is an annual anime convention run by the Anime Resource Group . It is the largest anime convention in Northern California and one of the ten largest anime conventions in North America...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Further Confusion
  Further Confusion
  Further Confusion, or Furcon, is an annual furry convention held in San Jose, California each January, celebrating the anthropomorphics genre or furry fandom, including charitable benefits, educational seminars, art shows, panels and general social activities...
  
  , San Jose
• LiveStrong Challenge bike race, San Jose
• San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
  San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
  The San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival presented every March is the nation’s largest showcase for new Asian American and Asian films, annually presenting approximately 130 works in San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose, USA...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Holiday Parade
  San Jose Holiday Parade
  The San Jose Holiday Parade is in San Jose, California. The parade is considered one of the "Top 25 Parades in America". Celebrities and famous locals appear as Grand Marshals and numerous bands from across America are invited to participate in the parade....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Jazz Festival
  San Jose Jazz Festival
  The San José Jazz Festival is an annual jazz festival organized by the San Jose Jazz Society and held in downtown San Jose, California, USA. The festival was established in 1990, and is mainly outdoors....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Stanford Jazz Festival
  Stanford Jazz Workshop
  Stanford Jazz Workshop was founded in 1972 by saxophonist and educator Jim Nadel to create an environment conducive to learning, experiencing and appreciating jazz...
  
  , Stanford University

Historical

• New Almaden
  New Almaden
  The New Almaden quicksilver mine in the Santa Teresa Hills in Santa Clara County, California, United States, is the oldest and most productive quicksilver mine in the U.S. The site was known to the Ohlone Indians for its cinnabar long before a Mexican settler discovered the ores in 1820...
  
   Quicksilver Mining Museum
• Circle of Palms Plaza
  Circle of Palms Plaza
  The Circle of Palms Plaza is located in downtown San Jose, California. It is the location of California Historical Marker 461, the site of California's first state capital from 1849-1851...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• De Anza Hotel
  De Anza Hotel
  The De Anza Hotel is a hotel in San Jose, California. At ten stories, it once was the tallest hotel in the San Jose central business district, prior to the construction of Hilton, Fairmont, and Marriott hotels. Significant for its architectural style, it is one of San Jose's few Zig Zag Moderne ...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Hangar One
  Hangar One (Mountain View, California)
  Hangar One is one of the world's largest freestanding structures, covering , and has long been one of the most recognizable landmarks of California's Silicon Valley. An early example of mid-century modern architecture, it was built in the 1930s as a naval airship station for the USS Macon.-Design...
  
  , Mountain View
• History Park at Kelley Park
  History Park at Kelley Park
  History Park at Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA is designed as an indoor/outdoor museum, arranged to appear as a small US town might have in the early 1900s...
  
  , Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• Packard's garage
  Packard's garage
  The HP Garage is a private museum where the company Hewlett-Packard was founded. It is located at 367 Addison Avenue in Palo Alto, California. It is considered to be the "Birthplace of Silicon Valley"...
  
  , Palo Alto
• Peralta Adobe
  Peralta Adobe
  The Peralta Adobe is the oldest building in San Jose, California, built in 1797. It is named after Luis María Peralta, its most famous resident. The original builder was probably Manuel González, an Apache Indian....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Portuguese Historical Museum
  Portuguese Historical Museum
  The Portuguese Historical Museum in San Jose, California, USA opened in 1997, and is a replica of the first permanent império built in San Jose circa 1915...
  
  , East San Jose
• Rengstorff House
  Rengstorff House
  The Rengstorff House was one of the first houses to be built in Mountain View, California. It was built by Henry Rengstorff, who operated a ferry between San Francisco and Mountain View. It is in the Italianate Victorian architecture style....
  
  , Mountain View
• Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
  Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum
  The Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum , founded by the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, is a museum about Ancient Egypt located at AMORC's Rosicrucian Park in the Rose Garden neighborhood of San Jose, California, United States....
  
  , downtown San Jose
• San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles
  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...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Winchester Mystery House
  Winchester Mystery House
  The Winchester Mystery House is a well-known mansion in California. It once was the personal residence of Sarah Winchester, the widow of gun magnate William Wirt Winchester. It was continuously under construction for 38 years and is reported to be haunted. It now serves as a tourist attraction...
  
  , West San Jose

Parks and trails

• Almaden Lake Park, South San Jose
• Almaden Quicksilver County Park
  Almaden Quicksilver County Park
  Almaden Quicksilver County Park is a 4,147 acres park that includes the grounds of former mercury mines adjacent to south San Jose, California, USA...
  
  , South San Jose
• Alum Rock Park
  Alum Rock Park
  Alum Rock Park, founded in 1872, was the first municipal park in the U.S. state of California. Located in a valley in the Diablo Range foothills on the east side of San Jose, the 720 acre park offers 13 miles of trails, varying from fairly level along Penitencia Creek to sharp switchbacks...
  
  , East San Jose
• Bay Area Ridge Trail
  Bay Area Ridge Trail
  The Bay Area Ridge Trail is a planned 550+-mile multi-use trail along the hill and mountain ridgelines ringing the San Francisco Bay Area, in Northern California. When complete, the trail will connect over 75 parks and open spaces. The trail is being designed to provide access for hikers,...
  
  , 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
  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 of its rim, and the erosion of its center by the many...
  
  , Santa Cruz Mountains
• Castle Rock State Park
  Castle Rock State Park (California)
  Castle Rock State Park is a state park of California, USA, located along the crest of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It embraces coast redwood, Douglas fir, and madrone forest, most of which has been left in its wild, natural state. Steep canyons are sprinkled with unusual rock formations that is a...
  
  , Santa Cruz Mountains
• Ed R. Levin County Park
  Ed R. Levin County Park
  Ed R. Levin County Park is the largest park in Milpitas, California. It is run by the County of Santa Clara and is located in the chaparral foothills east of the Santa Clara Valley. Monument Peak can be accessed through trails in the park...
  
  , Milpitas
• Fremont Older Open Space Preserve
  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 of hiking trails, nearly all open to equestrians and bicycles...
  
  , Saratoga
• Grant Ranch Park
  Grant Ranch Park
  Grant Ranch Park is the largest park in Santa Clara County, California, USA. Also known as Joseph D. Grant County Park, this site is situated in the eastern foothills of Santa Clara Valley....
  
  , East San Jose/Mount Hamilton
• Guadalupe River Trail
  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...
  
  , downtown San Jose, Willow Glen and South San Jose
• Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
  Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park
  Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park is a California State Park located in Santa Cruz County, primarily in the area in-between the cities of Santa Cruz, Felton, and Scotts Valley, and the University of California at Santa Cruz, and it includes an extension in the Fall Creek area.-Geography:The main...
  
  , Santa Cruz Mountains
• Kelley Park
  Kelley Park
  Kelley Park in San Jose, California, USA is 156 acres , including diverse facilities such as Happy Hollow Park & Zoo, the Japanese Friendship Garden, History Park at Kelley Park, Portuguese Historical Museum, and Viet Museum within the history park...
  
  , Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• Lake Cunningham
  Lake Cunningham
  Lake Cunningham Park is an artificial lake 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 . It is located on Capitol Expressway and stands next to Reid-Hillview Airport...
  
  , East San Jose
• Los Alamitos Creek Trail
  Los Alamitos Creek
  Los Alamitos Creek or Alamitos Creek is a creek in San Jose, California, which becomes the Guadalupe River at its confluence with Guadalupe Creek at Lake Almaden Park. It is located in Almaden Valley and originates from the Los Capitancillos Ridge and the Santa Cruz Mountains...
  
  , South San Jose
• Los Gatos Creek Trail
  Los Gatos Creek Trail
  The Los Gatos Creek Trail is a 9.7-mile pedestrian and bicycle trail that runs through western Santa Clara County in California, from Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos, California through Campbell, California to Meridian Avenue in San Jose, California alongside Los Gatos Creek...
  
  , West San Jose, Campbell and Los Gatos
• Plaza de César Chávez
  Plaza de Cesar Chavez
  Plaza de César Chávez is a 2.2-acre park in Downtown San Jose, California, USA, named after César Chávez in 1993. It is surrounded by South Market Street, across which is The Tech Museum of Innovation, the San Jose Museum of Art, the Circle of Palms Plaza and the Fairmont San Jose Hotel...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
  Rancho San Antonio Open Space Preserve
  Rancho San Antonio County Park is a public recreational area in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Santa Clara County, in northern California. It's approximately in area and contains of hiking trails. It is managed by the Santa Clara County Parks department...
  
  , Santa Cruz Mountains
• Rosicrucian Park
  Rosicrucian Park
  Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of AMORC, located in San Jose, California. The park takes up nearly an entire city block and includes the Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum, the administration building for the Order, the Rosicrucian Planetarium, the...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Sanborn Park
  Sanborn Park
  Sanborn Park is a public park situated in the Santa Cruz Mountains owned and managed by the county of Santa Clara, California. The park, originally named Sanborn-Skyline County Park is also known as Sanborn Skyline Park or Sanborn County Park. The holding is heavily forested and offers hiking...
  
  , Saratoga and Santa Cruz Mountains
• San Francisco Bay Trail
  San Francisco Bay Trail
  The San Francisco Bay Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that will eventually allow continuous travel around the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. As of 2011, approximately 310 miles of trail have been completed...
  
  , Palo Alto, Mountain View, Sunnyvale, Santa Clara, San Jose and Milpitas
• Shoreline Park, Mountain View, Mountain View
• Stevens Creek Trail, Cupertino, Sunnyvale and Mountain View
• Vasona Park
  Vasona Park
  Vasona Park, formerly Vasona Lake County Park, is a park located in Los Gatos, California and part of the Santa Clara County Parks system. Adjacent Oak Meadow Park is owned by the Town of Los Gatos. Vasona Park surrounds Vasona Reservoir, which, like Lexington Reservoir in Los Gatos' southern edge,...
  
  , Los Gatos
• Villa Montalvo Arboretum
  Villa Montalvo
  Villa Montalvo is an Italian Mediterranean style mansion nestled in the foothills of the Santa Cruz Mountains, in Saratoga, California, United States. It was constructed from 1912 to 1914 by California statesman and businessman James Duval Phelan. After Phelan's death, it was donated to the state...
  
  , Saratoga

Science, technology and education

• Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
  Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose
  Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose is located on Woz Way in downtown San Jose, California. Woz Way is named after Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer, whose nickname is "Woz," and who was the single largest private donor during the original capital campaign that funded the...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Computer History Museum
  Computer History Museum
  The Computer History Museum is a museum established in 1996 in Mountain View, California, USA. The Museum is dedicated to preserving and presenting the stories and artifacts of the information age, and exploring the computing revolution and its impact on our lives.-History:The museum's origins...
  
  , Mountain View
• Googleplex
  Googleplex
  The Googleplex is the corporate headquarters complex of Google, Inc., located at 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway in Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, United States, near San Jose. "Googleplex" is a portmanteau of Google and complex, and a reference to googolplex, the name given to the large...
  
  , Mountain View
• Intel Museum
  Intel Museum
  The Intel Museum located at Intel's headquarters in Santa Clara, California, has exhibits of Intel's products and history as well as semiconductor technology in general. The museum is open weekdays and Saturdays except holidays. It is open to the public with free admission.The museum was started...
  
  , Santa Clara
• Laser Quest
  Laser Quest
  Laser Quest is the name of a Canadian-based indoor lasertag game based around infrared hand held units and vests, as well as the name of the company which operates each game center. There are over 140 Laser Quest centers worldwide, including ones in Canada, the United States, the UK, France,...
  
  , Mountain View
• Lick Observatory
  Lick Observatory
  The Lick Observatory is an astronomical observatory, owned and operated by the University of California. It is situated on the summit of Mount Hamilton, in the Diablo Range just east of San Jose, California, USA...
  
  , Mount Hamilton
• NASA Ames Research Center
  NASA Ames Research Center
  The Ames Research Center , is one of the United States of America's National Aeronautics and Space Administration 10 major field centers.The centre is located in Moffett Field in California's Silicon Valley, near the high-tech companies, entrepreneurial ventures, universities, and other...
  
  , Mountain View
• San Jose State University
  San José State University
  San Jose State University is a public university located in San Jose, California, United States...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Santa Clara University
  Santa Clara University
  Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...
  
  , Santa Clara
• Stanford University
  Stanford University
  The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
  
  , Palo Alto
• The Tech Museum of Innovation
  The Tech Museum of Innovation
  The Tech Museum of Innovation, or simply The Tech, is a museum located in the heart of Silicon Valley, in downtown San Jose, California USA.-History:...
  
  , downtown San Jose

Shopping

• Eastridge Center
  Eastridge Center
  Eastridge Center is a shopping mall in eastern San Jose, California owned by General Growth Properties. The mall has an enclosed shopping area, restaurants and theaters...
  
  , East San Jose
• Great Mall of the Bay Area
  Great Mall of the Bay Area
  The Great Mall of the Bay Area is a large outlet shopping mall in Milpitas, California built by Ford Motor Land Development and Petrie Dierman Kughn in 1994, then acquired by Mills Corporation in 2003, and is now owned by the Simon Property Group since April 2007.-History:Formerly a Ford...
  
  , Milpitas
• Pruneyard Shopping Center
  Pruneyard Shopping Center
  The PruneYard Shopping Center is a sprawling 250,000 square foot shopping center located in Campbell, California at the intersection of Campbell Avenue and Bascom Avenue, just east of State Route 17. It also features three office towers, one of which is the tallest building in the area outside of...
  
  , Campbell
• San Antonio Shopping Center
  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. It is one of the biggest shopping malls in Mountain View, and its proximity to Los Altos and Palo Alto also attracts shoppers from the nearby towns...
  
  , Mountain View
• Santana Row
  Santana Row
  Santana Row is an upscale shopping, residential, dining and entertainment complex in San Jose, California. Westfield Valley Fair is located just to its north, on the other side of Stevens Creek Boulevard, and the Winchester Mystery House just to the west, across Winchester Boulevard.- Stores...
  
  , West San Jose
• Stanford Shopping Center
  Stanford Shopping Center
  Stanford Shopping Center is an upscale open air shopping mall located on 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 actual buildings or stores...
  
  , Palo Alto
• Vallco Shopping Mall (renamed Cupertino Square from 2007 until returning to Vallco in 2009)
• Westfield Oakridge
  Westfield Oakridge
  Westfield Oakridge, formerly known as Westfield Shoppingtown Oakridge and Oakridge Mall, is a shopping mall owned by The Westfield Group, located at the corner of Santa Teresa Boulevard and Blossom Hill Road in San Jose, California, United States...
  
  , South San Jose
• Westfield Valley Fair
  Westfield Valley Fair
  Westfield Valley Fair, formerly known as Valley Fair and Westfield Shoppingtown Valley Fair is an upscale in-door shopping mall owned by the Westfield Group, located at the corner of Winchester and Stevens Creek Boulevards, straddling the border of San Jose and Santa Clara, California, United...
  
  , West San Jose
• Westgate Mall
  Westgate Mall (San Jose)
  Westgate Mall is a . shopping center located in the West San Jose neighborhood of San Jose, California. The mall is located at the intersection of Saratoga Avenue and Campbell Avenue...
  
  , West San Jose

Theme parks & Tours

• Airship Ventures
  Airship Ventures
  Airship Ventures Inc. is a private company offering sight-seeing rides in a 12-passenger Zeppelin NT out of a World War II United States Navy hangar at Moffett Federal Airfield near Mountain View, California....
  
  , Mountain View
• Billy Jones Wildcat Railroad, Los Gatos
• California's Great America, Santa Clara (formerly "Paramount's Great America")
• Gilroy Gardens
  Gilroy Gardens
  Gilroy Gardens is a garden-themed family theme park in Gilroy, California and current location of the world-famous Circus Trees created by Axel Erlandson. It was founded by Michael and Claudia Bonfante after selling their Nob Hill Foods supermarket chain to build the park. The park was constructed...
  
  , Gilroy (formerly "Bonfante Gardens")
• Happy Hollow Park & Zoo
  Happy Hollow Park & Zoo
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  , Willow Glen (south-central San Jose)
• Raging Waters, East San Jose
• Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad
  Roaring Camp and Big Trees Narrow Gauge Railroad
  The Roaring Camp & Big Trees Railroad is a narrow gauge tourist railroad in California that starts from the Roaring Camp depot in Felton, California and runs up steep grades to the top of nearby Bear Mountain, a distance of 3.25 miles The travel is through a redwood forest.The steam engines date...
  
  , Santa Cruz Mountains

Vineyards and wineries

• Byington Vineyard
  Byington Vineyard
  Byington Vineyard is a vineyard and winery in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Silicon Valley in California as well as of vineyard near Paso Robles, California.-History:...
  
  , Los Gatos
• David Bruce Winery
  David Bruce Winery
  David Bruce Winery is a California winery located at about elevation in the Santa Cruz Mountains AVA above Silicon Valley in Northern California. It was established by dermatologist David Bruce, M.D., in 1961 about a mile away from the Martin Ray Vineyard that often appears on vineyard designated...
  
  , Los Gatos
• J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines
  J. Lohr Vineyards and Wines
  J. Lohr Vineyards & Wines is a winery headquartered in San Jose, California, with over 3700 acres of estate vineyards in Paso Robles, Monterey County and the Napa Valley. The family-owned and operated company, which has wineries in San Jose and Paso Robles, was founded in 1971 by President Jerry...
  
  , downtown San Jose
• Mountain Winery
  Mountain Winery
  The Mountain Winery, formerly the Paul Masson Mountain Winery, is a winery in Saratoga, California, USA. It was founded by Paul Masson, a pioneer of the California wine industry...
  
  , Saratoga
• Picchetti Brothers Winery
  Picchetti Brothers Winery
  The Picchetti Brothers Winery, also known as the Picchetti Ranch, is a winery located at 13100 Montebello Rd., Cupertino, California in the Picchetti Ranch Open Space Preserve...
  
  , Cupertino
• Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards
  Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards
  Savannah-Chanelle Vineyards, is a vineyard located in the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains above Saratoga, California and the Silicon Valley...
  
  , Saratoga

External links

• Entertainment at City of San Jose
• Things to do at San Jose/Silicon Valley Convention & Visitors Bureau
• list of attractions at SanJose.com
• list of events at San Jose Mercury News
• Nasa Ames Research Center/Moffet Field Tours
• Moffet Field Museum and Tours