Downtown Menlo Park, Palo Alto, Stanford University, and Stanford Shopping Center along El Camino Real aren't points of interest? What about Redwood City, San Carlos, or Hillsdale?
[I stayed there for a week or so once, and as best I could tell, it consisted entirely of office parks and strip malls connected to housing developments by enormous roads, everything well lathered with parking lots. We walked around as best we could, but there seemed nothing beautiful or nice there... just endless vistas of office parks and pavement...]
I think you're exaggerating just a bit.