2 Best Sights in Southwestern New Mexico, New Mexico

Across an open courtyard from the Branigan Cultural Center, the Las Cruces Museum of Art shows the eclectic, contemporary works of regional artists. Subjects covered include life in the borderlands as well as landscapes of the Organ Mountains and nearby ghost towns.

The university's art museum displays both historic holdings—19th-century Mexican retablos, for example, representing the nation's's largest collection of this religious art form—and contemporary ones, such as Robert Rauschenberg lithographs.