If it’s not on your Vegas bucket list, it should be. There’s no better gateway to Vegas’ notorious past than listening to former Mayor/Mob attorney Oscar Goodman tell stories from Las Vegas' bygone era.

For a mere $8 (or $7 apiece for groups), ticketed Mob Museum guests can listen to Goodman share his experiences representing infamous figures such as Tony “The Ant” Spilotro and “Mob accountant” Meyer Lansky. Goodman also discusses portraying himself in the movie Casino and trying his first case in the Museum’s preserved courtroom.

"There's humor when it comes to Oscar Goodman; he's always very quick witted," says Vice President of Exhibits & Programs Geoff Schumacher, who adds that Goodman offers "the gravitas of being someone who was there and who was representing mobsters during [their] heyday." (Schumacher also loves the detail of Goodman forgetting his lines on set until Director Martin Scorsese provided cue cards.)

This is all part of the Mob Museum’s new self-guided audio tour. An old audio tour was scrapped after the museum underwent a massive renovation. "We had an opportunity to revise and update the audio tour to cover all of this new content that we had created for the museum," Schumacher says. Rather than tack the new information onto the old tour, Schumacher says the Museum "created a whole new audio tour that introduces new stories, tells stories in a really compelling way and covers just every aspect of organized crime that you can imagine."

The 85-minute recording includes 40 stops, many of which are narrated by seasoned Museum volunteers. Expect tales of mystery (Bugsy Siegel’s and Jimmy Hoffa’s unsolved murders); ruinous love (the “Kiss of Death” girl); Prohibition (bootleggers and flappers); and the good guys (how the law conquered the Mob).

Schumacher says he enjoys the story of how Al Capone formed a band while in Alcatraz prison. "He had his family send instruments to him, and he passed them around to different notorious bad guys who had some musical skill," says Schumacher, the primary writer and curator of the tour. For the record, Capone sang and played the banjo and mandola, which is like a large mandolin.

Human tour guides led by staff educators are still available upon request for groups, but that doesn't mean the audio tour is in any way lacking. “The exhibits in the museum are already really in-depth, but we have guests who want more,” Schumacher says. “The audio tour adds another layer of depth to your experience at the museum and enhances every exhibit in the museum. It's not just [an audio] replica of the experience of the exhibits, it's an enhancement.”

THE MOB MUSEUM 300 Stewart Ave., 702-229-2734, themobmuseum.org. Daily 11 a.m.-7 p.m., $17+ for admission, $7-$8 for audio tour.