History

If you're a baseball fan, you owe it to yourself to visit this place in Missouri at some point in your life.

One Illinois cemetery contains some of the most notorious Chicago gangsters all in one place.

Now, it's gone forever, but explorers were granted one final walkthrough of the Chesterfield, Missouri Mall before it closed.

This has been and always will be a tricky state question. What is the smallest town in Illinois? It depends on who you ask, but there is an official answer and in Illinois, it's a tie between two tiny places that both have just 36 souls calling it home.

If you know your wild west history, you probably already know that the real John Henry 'Doc' Holliday spent some time in St. Louis, Missouri. What you might not know is how much the time in the state affected him and how he likely found love and the beginnings of his legend in the Show Me State.

One of my most memorable trips as a kid was to Abraham Lincoln historical sites in Springfield, Illinois. Now, there's a new but still somber look at Abraham Lincoln's first and only Illinois home plus his final resting place.

It's one of the most historic Missouri stops on the famous Route 66 that's also one of the more strange things you'll see. It's a bridge that's crooked in the middle that also has a tragic history, too.

If you're interested in wild west history and Wyatt Earp specifically, you no doubt know about Dodge City, Kansas and Tombstone, Arizona. But, you should also know about where his history led him which includes his grave and that of his first wife who was laid to rest in a small Missouri cemetery.

You can say what you want about Missouri, but it's impossible to deny the history that has happened across the state. That includes numerous infamous shootout locations where Bonnie & Clyde and gangster Pretty Boy Floyd were involved in deadly battles.

America loves heroes, but the truth is that no one is completely heroic or a villain. Everyone is a combination of good, bad and otherwise. I would imagine that's true of Walt Disney, too, who had humble beginnings in the Kansas City, Missouri area before he became a worldwide phenomenon in the motion picture and entertainment industry.