- LIGHTHOUSE POINT & SANTA CRUZ SURFING MUSEUM
- West Cliff Drive; Has local surfing memorabilia dating back 100 years.
- LONG MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM
- Research facility featuring an 85 foot blue whale skeleton, touch tanks and tidepool aquariums.
- MYSTERY SPOT
- Visitors and trees lean at crazy angles, balls defy gravity by rolling up hill.
- ROARING CAMP & BIG TREES NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD
- Visit this 1880’s logging town set in the redwoods of San Lorenzo Valley, ride a narrow-gauge steam train.
- SANTA CRUZ BEACH BOARDWALK
- Ride the historic 1911 merry-go-round or the Giant Dipper (originally built in 1923), other contemporary rides, Virtual Reality games, laser tag.
- SANTA CRUZ MUNICIPAL WHARF
- A panoramic view of the bay, the Wharf is also a good place for fishing and crabbing. Restaurants, gift shops, deep sea fishing charters, bay cruises, whale watching and sea kayaking are available.
