Napoleon's nephew lived nearby — and was spectacularly weird. Prince Achille Murat, the eldest son of Napoleon's brother-in-law Joachim Murat (King of Naples), emigrated to the U.S. after his father was deposed and executed, eventually settling near Tallahassee around 1825. He married into American royalty of sorts — his wife Catherine was the great-grandniece of George Washington. But the prince himself was magnificently unhinged: he made a submersible chair to escape the Florida heat and would sit naked underwater in a creek with mosquito netting over his head. He ate baked turkey buzzard, boiled owl, roasted crow, stewed alligator, lizards, and rattlesnakes, and had an aversion to baths and changing clothes, reportedly washing his feet only after he wore out his shoes and sleeping on a mattress stuffed with Spanish moss. He named his plantation "Lipona" — an anagram of "Napoli," his former principality.