Among the most pleasant of the Bay Area suburbs, PALO ALTO is the home of Stanford University. The university's mixture of Romanesque and Mission styles are housed on 8,200 sprawling acres. Its museum, the Stanford Museum of Art is home to one of the largest collections of sculptures by Auguste Rodin. The main drag, University Avenue is lined by trendy cafés and chic new restaurants. If you are a nature lover, you can visit the Palo Alto Baylands Nature Preserve, located east of downtown. It is a wetlands area of creeks and freshwater and saltwater marshland that supports abundant bird life.