Cast in 1484 by the order of King Dhammazedi of Hanthawaddy Pegu, the Great Bell of Dhammazedi could give the Liberty Bell a run for its money. This bronze behemoth, believed to be the largest bell ever made, was destined to dazzle at Yangon's Shwedagon Pagoda.

Despite astrological warnings of an inauspicious time involving the Crocodile constellation, the king pressed on. The result? A bell with a less-than-melodious ring and a massive size: twelve cubits high and eight cubits wide, engraved with inscrutable letters from top to bottom.

In 1608, it met a watery fate when Portuguese warlord Filipe de Brito tried to steal it to make cannons, only for it to sink his ship at the confluence of the Bago and Yangon Rivers, where it remains lost to this day.