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Napoleon Bonaparte is a name that most people are familiar with. Whether your main focus is his love life, starring Desire and Josephine, his military career, including his defeat at Waterloo his rule as emperor, or his ability at real estate flipping (look what he did with Louisiana!), what happened after his death may be even more interesting. For whatever reason, his… er… private parts… were removed before burial (they have since been auctioned off!) and then he was interred in an above ground tomb. He was dressed in full military garb and placed inside six… yes, SIX… coffins. Maybe they got the idea from examining a set of nesting dolls. The coffins are made of mostly different materials… the memorial itself is made of of porphyry from Finland, and inside it, therest of the nested coffins… one of mahogany, two made of lead, one of ebony, and one of oak. I guess they wanted him to be REALLY hard to find! These memorial coffins are located at Les Invalides in Paris, France.

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