Things didn't get much better for the strongman's lifeless body. According to History.com, the man who put himself on a pedestal for a country to adore and fear was buried in the anonymity of an unmarked grave. Some Fascists came along and disinterred him a year later, absconding with it to a convent in the region of Lombardy, but the government was able to recover it and bury it at a Milan monastery. The dictator's wife had it moved to a family mausoleum in Predappio a year later.
Then about a decade after that, in 1966, she received a strange package from an American diplomat. It was an envelope containing part of her husband's brain. The Americans had somehow gotten a hold of it so that they could study the cerebral makeup of a murderous dictator. She rejoined the cerebral matter with its entombed body, and now 100,000 people visit Mussolini's grave each year. Then in 2009, Mussolini's granddaughter Alessandra filed a police report claiming that she had seen a listing for her good ole mass murderin' granddaddy's blood and brains on Ebay, according to the BBC. Who knows where more of Mussolini's remains will pop up next?
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