El Paso
This isn't the kind of antique store where you find Chippendale furniture or a rare Fabergé egg. It's the kind of place where you pull up your Dodge Ram to haul home an enormous fiberglass chicken or a wooden cigar-store Indian. Sure, there are smaller items, but the real fun is exploring the huge front yard full of ridiculous treasures.
Located on the I-10 access road just before the New Mexico border.
Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument
25.23 MILES
New Mexico's newest national monument consists of several separate components, totaling almost 500,000 acres and all lying within a 50-mile radius of Las…
24.78 MILES
Dating back 150 years and little changed since, Mesilla is a charming old adobe town. Despite the souvenir shops and tourist-oriented restaurants, its…
15.15 MILES
This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but…
New Mexico Farm & Ranch Heritage Museum
24.53 MILES
This terrific museum doesn’t just display engaging exhibits on the state’s agricultural history – it's got livestock too. Enclosures on the working farm…
24.02 MILES
Home to Texas’ oldest continually active congregation, tracing back to 1680, Ysleta Mission was established for Spanish refugees and Tigua people fleeing…
10.1 MILES
The largest urban park in the US, at over 24,000 acres, offers a quick escape from the city to the home of ringtail cats, coyotes and countless other…
14.85 MILES
El Paso might not seem an obvious location for a Holocaust museum. Created by local survivors, though, this excellent little memorial holds thoughtful and…
First Armored Division & Fort Bliss Museum
14.53 MILES
As the largest air-defense training center in the Western world, Fort Bliss consumes much of the desert northeast of El Paso, and trains troops from all…
1. El Paso Museum of Archaeology
8.86 MILES
The dioramas depicting the lives of the region's ancient peoples aren't particularly illuminating, but the baskets, pottery and hunting tools created by…
8.9 MILES
This small but informative museum spotlights the history of the US Border Patrol, which was founded in 1924. This happened three days after Congress…
3. Franklin Mountains State Park
10.1 MILES
The largest urban park in the US, at over 24,000 acres, offers a quick escape from the city to the home of ringtail cats, coyotes and countless other…
4. Western Playland Amusement Park
10.99 MILES
Small but fun, this old-school amusement park (just over the border in New Mexico) is a great way to burn off the pent-up energy of kids on a long drive…
5. First Armored Division & Fort Bliss Museum
14.53 MILES
As the largest air-defense training center in the Western world, Fort Bliss consumes much of the desert northeast of El Paso, and trains troops from all…
14.85 MILES
El Paso might not seem an obvious location for a Holocaust museum. Created by local survivors, though, this excellent little memorial holds thoughtful and…
15.01 MILES
This museum has a shiny new location in the heart of the downtown museum district. It's not particularly big and sometimes there seems to be a lot of…
15.15 MILES
This thoroughly enjoyable small-scale museum is housed in a former Greyhound station. Its pride and joy is a 13th-century Byzantine Madonna and Child, but…