Death may be inevitable, but the disposal of one's corpse is when things really start to get interesting. Just viewing the 14 permanent exhibits at the National Museum of Funeral History can take up an entire afternoon: There's an actual Popemobile, a hearse used to carry the body of President Ronald Reagan, and a history of embalming dating back to ancient Egypt (hello, mummy). It's not all doom and gloom either: The Día de los Muertos exhibit honors the souls of the departed in blazing color, while the star-studded Thanks for the Memories display pays tribute to celebs like Marilyn Monroe and Michael Jackson. But our hands-down personal faves have to be the fantasy coffins from West Africa — the largest collection outside of Ghana — sculpted into a fish, a leopard, a chicken or a canoe.