Worth A Trip

By Harriet Barovick, Michelle Derrow, Tam Gray, Daniel Levy, Lina Lofaro, David Spitz, Flora Tartakovsky and Chris Taylor

THE '80S ARE HISTORY Museums are there to remind us of higher things. Maybe this is why the Drug Enforcement Administration is opening a museum this week. By next year when the Museum of Sex opens, the archiving of sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll will be complete.

MUSEUM THE DEA MUSEUM Arlington, Va.

MISSION To trace the history of drugs in America

FUNDED BY Congress

ODDEST ARTIFACT A drug boss's diamond-studded Colt .45 handgun

PLEASE NOTE All drugs are fake except for a bag of marijuana, which is locked away and alarmed.

[MUSEUM] ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Cleveland, Ohio

[MISSION] To trace the history of rock music everywhere

[FUNDED BY] Private donations

[ODDEST ARTIFACT] Wavy Gravy's psychedelic dentures

[PLEASE NOTE] "We've got a Sea World, and we're near a large Amish region."

[MUSEUM] THE MUSEUM OF SEX New York City

[MISSION] To trace the history of sexuality in America

[FUNDED BY] Private donations

[ODDEST ARTIFACT] "Bundling boards" that gauged the "heat" given off by Colonial couples

[PLEASE NOTE] They'd love to procure Ms. Lewinsky's dress