Former Sin Cities
- Asia
- Shanghai, China, 1920s and 1930s. (organized crime, opium dens, gambling, police corruption, political corruption, prostitution)
- Europe
- Berlin, Weimar Republic - 1920s and early 1930s (Prostitution, numerous cabarets, decadence in general)
- North America
- New York City in the mid to late 19th Century (prostitution, brothels, illegal gambling, notorious slums, pickpocketing, police corruption, political corruption, drugs, gangs, organized crime), Times Square from the mid-1960s until circa 1990 (prostitution, pornography, go-go bars, sex shops, sex shows, squeegee men, strip clubs, clubbing, drugs, organized crime)
- New Orleans from 1897 through 1917, Storyville district (prostitution, brothels, gambling, and speakeasies)
- Chicago in the 1920s to 1930s (prostitution, bootlegging, cabarets, speakeasies, illegal gambling, bank robberies, police corruption, organized crime, and gang activity)
- Covington, KY and Newport, KY (brothels, gambling)
- Galveston, Texas in the 1920s to 1957 (prostitution, organized crime, gambling, speakeasies, drinking, political corruption)
- Montreal, which earned a reputation for vice through American tourists fleeing the prohibition laws.
- In 1955, Terre Haute, IN was labeled Sin City by the monthly magazine Stag. (reputation for being "wide open", with gambling and a well-developed "red light district"). Now the federal death row is in Terre Haute at the Terre Haute Federal Correctional Complex.
- In the 1980-1990s Michigan City, IN was considered Sin City, with the proliferation of massage parlors
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