Silicon Valley Tech Attractions

San Jose, The Capital of Silicon Valley, is home to over 6,600 technology companies including: Adobe, Cisco, Brocade, Netflix, eBay, PayPal, Sun Power and TiVo. In the neighboring cities, there is also Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Intel and others. Below is a recommended list of Silicon Valley landmarks.

Tech Campuses Googleplex Campus that would change search, Tech Attractions & Android Statue and the Internet forever. Garden Lick Observatory Apple Headquarters 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, HP Garage 1 infinite loop, 7281 Mt Hamilton Rd, Mt Mountain View, CA 94043 367 Addison Avenue, Cupertino, CA 95014 Palo Alto, CA 94301 Hamilton, CA 95140 At the Google campus, At the Apple headquarters 4,200 feet above the valley guests can visit Google’s In September of 2004, guests can visit the Apple floor you can learn about sculpture garden, which Hewlett-Packard announced company store and shop for Stephen Hawking’s partnership features a new colorful candy efforts to preserve the HP authentic Apple merchandise with Lick Observatory to Android sculpture each time garage – It’s most famous that cannot be found pursue intelligent life beyond an operating system (O.S.) piece of real estate. The project anywhere else in the world. Earth. Lick Observatory is is developed. Next to the turned the clock back on the original house at 367 the world’s first permanently garden is the company store occupied mountain-top Apple Park where visitors can shop for Addison Avenue, Palo Alto, 19298 Homestead Rd, to conditions much as they observatory and hosts a wearables, merchandise summer concert series with Cupertino, CA 95014 and accessories. were in 1939, when Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard astronomy lectures, and Once completed, Apple nighttime viewing of the Campus 2 will offer a visitor established the now legendary Hewlett-Packard partnership. stars through a 36-inch center with a glass-walled refractor telescope. structure. On the ground floor Completion of the project was there will be a cafe and store, celebrated with a ribbon- which will allows visitors to cutting ceremony on view and purchase the new- December 6, 2005. While est Apple products. The the HP garage is not open campus is expected to open for public tours, visitors may in spring 2017. view and photograph the property and landmark from Adobe Semaphore the sidewalk. Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95113 Steve Jobs Garage 2066 Crist Drive, Located high above the Los Altos, CA 94024 headquarters of Abode’s campus in Downtown San The childhood home of Steve Jose is a giant puzzle called Jobs is also the birthplace the Semaphore, which is of Apple. In this suburban waiting to be solved by garage Steve Jobs, Steve anyone who can crack the code. Wozniak and a group of Famous Silicon neighborhood kids hired to Facebook Valley Garages help (including Steve’s sister Patti) put together the boards 1 Hacker Way, NASA Ames Menlo Park, CA 94025 Google Garage of the first computer, the Apple 232 Santa Margarita I, starting in 1976. Visitors Research Center Stop by for a selife next to Moffett Blvd / NASA Avenue, Menlo Park, may view and photograph the thumbs up at Facebook’s the property from the street. Parkway headquarter office and take CA 94025 NASA Ames Exploration a peak next door at their Google began in this Menlo Center is a key facility for new campus designed by Park home when co-founders many of NASA’s missions and Frank Gehry. Larry Page and Sergey Brin projects. Guests can take rented the garage from a self-guided tour inside a Susan Wojcicki. The duo mock space station located spent the winter of 1998 building the tech company in the research center. sanjose.org 1 Silicon Valley Tech Attractions

Computer History Beam Store Rosewood Sand Hill Museum Staffed Entirely by Robots 2825 Sand Hill Rd., Menlo 1401 N Shoreline Blvd, The Beam Store is ‘staffed’ Park, CA 94025 Mountain View, CA 94043 by employees located in Nestled amid 16 lush acres The Museum chronicles remote locations around the in Menlo Park, Rosewood Silicon Valley’s history with a world. The employees talk Sand Hill is popular among collection of over 1,100 historic through robots equipped Silicon Valley executives and artifacts, including some of with screens, speakers and is featured in the HBO show the very first computers from wheels that allow for full Silicon Valley. the 1940s and 1950s. mobility and conversation. Buck’s of Woodside Intel Museum and 3062 Woodside Rd, Headquarters Woodside, CA 94062 2200 Mission College Blvd, Known for its wacky décor, Santa Clara, CA 95054 Buck’s is another popular spot for many venture The Intel museum offers a capitalists. Numerous deals behind the scenes glimpse have been made here into the high-tech world of including (as legend has it) California’s famed Silicon those for Netscape, Hotmail, Valley, with an admission Restaurants PayPal, and Facebook. free museum connected to Intel’s headquarters. Gourmet Haus Staudt 2615 Broadway, Redwood City, CA This popular Silicon Valley watering hole is where the iPhone prototype was Flagship Tesla famously “lost & found.” Showroom 377 Santana Row, Calafia Café San Jose, CA 855 El Camino Real #130, Palo Alto, CA One of the first Tesla show- rooms on the West coast is Finally get a taste of the located in San Jose’s Santana Google life with cuisine Row, the Rodeo Drive of prepared by Google’s first Silicon Valley and known executive chef, Charlie Ayers hangout for the tech elite. San Jose Fun Facts The Tech Museum of Innovation • Dell recently named San 201 S Market St, Jose the Most Future Ready San Jose, CA 95113 City in America (2016) The Tech Museum of Innovation • Silicon Valley attracts 40% is the only museum where of all venture capital money you can design a real robot, invested in the U.S. play with wearable technology and experience • San Jose recently a simulated earthquake. The established the first U.S. Tech also opened the first West Coast Patent and interactive bioengineering Trademark Office exhibit in the U.S. • San Jose generates more patents than any other place in the United States. sanjose.org 2