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Tsar Bell - the largest bell in the world, but it's never been rung. An 11 ton chunk fell off in 1737, and instead of fixing it, the Russians put it on display. "In Moscow every foreigner is taken to look at the great cannon and the great bell - the cannon which cannot be fired and the bell which fell down before it was rung. It is an amazing town in which the objects of interest are distinguished by their absurdity, or perhaps that great bell without a tongue is a hieroglyph symbolic of this huge, dumb land." - Pyotr Chaadaev