The Intel Museum in Silicon Valley is a fun and educational kid-friendly hands-on museum with activities that even the youngest computer enthusiast will appreciate. Among the essential items to see are: computer chip wafers, the silicon ingot and some of the first PCs and their components to enter homes in the early 1980s.
Santa Barbara, California, famous for its mission and general Spanish architectural style.
The best place in the world to live!!! I've been to dozens of great beach towns, and living near the harbor in Santa Cruz with its banana belt weather, gentle crowd of locals, and a few darn good places to have a beer and a burger, it's tough to beat this area.