Missouri

If you're looking for the most expensive home available in Missouri, what you'll find is a dream that sits next to the Lake of the Ozarks. It's a sprawling estate that has just about everything you can imagine.

I am not an easy person to surprise. I've been on this earth long enough to have seen a few things and done a lot of things. That being said, I was surprised when I saw who readers of USA Today chose as the best department store in America. It's a store who's story began in Missouri.

Some of Hollywood's best movies involve an escape from a prison. Did you know that 8 times inmates in real life have made daring escapes from the old Missouri State Penitentiary and got away with it? This is that interesting history that even movies can't equal.

It's technically winter now in Missouri, but you wouldn't know it from walking around outside. Unseasonably warm temperatures and nearly no snowfall makes us wonder what the rest of winter will be like. Believe it or not, Christmas Day in Missouri is forecast to be warmer than even New Mexico.

He was determined to prove his friends wrong. A man in Taos, Missouri was told by his buddies that he would not be able to do a backflip off of a trampoline. He set out to prove he could. What he didn't know as video proved is that the trampoline had already decided it was not going to happen.

When a question comes to my mind, I like to make educated guesses before I research the truth. When it comes to what the richest county is in Missouri, I guessed wrong many times, but I will reveal it's nowhere near Lake of the Ozarks which would have been near the top of my list.

When I think of tall structures in Missouri, I immediately think of big skyscrapers in St. Louis and Kansas City, but neither city has the tallest structure in the state. As a matter of fact, the tallest structure in Missouri isn't a building at all.

This is the ultimate get-away-from-it-all place. Many claim it's the most remote place in the state of Missouri. They may be right. One thing is certain. It's beyond beautiful.

I love dogs. I’ve been fortunate to have many during my lifetime. However, according to a brand new ranking, I have never had Missouri’s favorite dog breed and I’m genuinely surprised this is the choice and I predict you probably will be, too.

If you want get away from it all, you can go camping. If you want to get away from it all, but do it in a glamourous way, you can go glamping. But, there's now a Missouri place that will let you go 'hamping' and it's the best way to defy gravity in the trees.