One of the largest museums between the West Coast and Chicago, the Denver Art Museum hosts a vast collection of paintings, sculptures, and photographs. The museum is especially known for its Pre-Columbian Art and American West Art collections.

www.denverartmuseum.org

The Denver Botanic Gardens features 15,000 plant species, including 700 Colorado natives. The main gardens on York Street encompass the desert and alpine environs of the American West, the formal gardens of Japan, the diversity of the tropics, and more. Comprised of both indoor and outdoor facilities, the Botanic Gardens is a year-round destination.

For more information, www.botanicgardens.org/york-street.

If interested in native species and urban gardening, consider visiting Chatfield Farms, www.botanicgardens.org/chatfield-farms.

Once the residence of " The Unsinkable Molly Brown", a 19th century American socialite and philanthropist best known for surviving the sinking of the Titanic, this historic home in the city's Capitol Hill neighborhood now serves as a landmark and museum. Today, the house remains a symbol of Denver's guilded age, showing off the opulence and grandeur of Denver's upper class during the Victorian Period as well as tracing the life of its former occupant, Margaret Brown. One of very few remaining Victorian mansions in the city, the house was saved and restored by Historic Denver Inc. and serves as a memorial to Denver's history.

www.mollybrown.org