Pancho Villa: Gunned down on July 20, 1923, Villa was buried at the local cemetery in Hidalgo del Parral. He was dug up several times, however, and some say his skull is in the possession of the Skull and Bones Society at Yale University. The mayor ordered his body relocated to an unmarked grave. Later, he was dug up and entombed at the Revolution Monument in Mexico City.

Christopher Columbus: The man we all learn about in history class moved multiple times after passing to the other side. DNA results have proved that he lies in Seville, Spain, but the Dominican Republic also claims to have some of his remains. Since Dominican authorities won’t let testing be done on the supposed explorer’s bones, his death, like his life, remains legendary.

Evita Perón: After death, her husband, President Juan Perón, ordered her body preserved (think taxidermy). After Perón lost power, the opposition sent Evita’s body to be buried in Milan, Italy, under another name. In 1971 Perón, living in exile in Spain, took possession of the body and kept it in his home until his return to Argentina in 1973. When he died in 1974, their bodies were displayed side-by-side for a while. Evita Peron was moved to her present location, Recoleta Cemetery in Buenos Aires, in 1974. There is no word on her future travel plans.

Ché Guevara: In October 1967, Ché Guevara was captured and executed by Bolivian forces working in concert with the CIA. He was buried near an airstrip near Vallegrande. In 1997, his remains were exhumed, identified with DNA, and returned to Cuba. His remains currently rest in a special mausoleum dedicated to him in Santa Clara, where he won an important battle of the Cuban Revolution in 1958.

Simón Bolívar: The great Liberator of South America died of tuberculosis in Santa Marta, Columbia, in 1830. He was buried there for a while, but was moved to Caracas, Venezuela in 1842, where he currently resides in a mausoleum built in his honor.

General Santa Anna’s leg: In 1838, two years after losing Texas, General José Antonio de Santa Anna, president of Mexico, lost one of his legs below the knee fighting the French, who had invaded in order to recoup certain debts. The leg was initially buried at the Hacienda Manga del Clavo, one of Santa Anna’s own properties. Later, he had it dug up and buried in a solemn military ceremony at the Santa Paula Cemetery. Later still, locals angry with Santa Anna’s politics dug up the leg and dragged it through town. Meanwhile, in 1847, Santa Anna, fighting the U.S. – Mexican war, was surprised while eating dinner by a regiment of Illinoisans, who carried off his wooden leg. In spite of repeated requests for its return by the Mexican government, the wooden leg still can be seen at the Illinois National Guard Museum, Camp Lincoln, Springfield, Illinois.

Emperor Maximilian of Mexico: On June 19, 1867, Maximilian of Austria, Emperor of Mexico, was executed by firing squad. His body was displayed in Mexico for about a year before being returned to Austria, where it resides in the Imperial Crypt.

Eliza Lynch: In 1855, Francisco Solano López, the son of Paraguayan president Carlos Antonio López, came back to Paraguay from a trip to Europe with a surprise: Irish prostitute Eliza Lynch, who he had met in Paris. Before long, Eliza had turned Paraguayan society upside-down, ordering the construction of lavish buildings and confiscating the jewelry of Paraguay’s elite in the name of “the war effort.” After López died, she returned to Europe where she died in 1884. Over a hundred years later, her body was exhumed and returned to Paraguay, where it was reburied with honor in the national cemetery.

José de San Martín: (1778-1850) General San Martín liberated much of southern South America from Spanish rule, including his native Argentina. After independence, he refused to take part in the civil wars that were tearing his young country apart and moved to France where he lived from 1824 until his death in 1850. In 1880, his remains were returned to Argentina: they’re still in the Buenos Aires Cathedral.

Carlos Gardel: Carlos Gardel was a famous tango singer. Originally from Uruguay, he was killed tragically in a plane crash in 1935 in Medellín, Columbia. Such was the outpouring of grief that his body was sent to New York, Rio de Janeiro and Uruguay before finally being laid to rest in Buenos Aires, Argentina.