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Brussels airport diamond heist - On February 18, 2013, an armored van was held up at Zaventem airport in Brussels. The eight robbers were armed and made off with diamonds worth approximately $50 million.

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Theft of priceless objects - On Christmas Eve 1985, around 140 priceless Mayan and Aztec objects were stolen from the National Anthropology Museum in Mexico City. Four years later, federal agents recouped most of the gold and jade items and also some stone artifacts.

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Antwerp heist - In February 2003, Leonardo Notarbartolo was detained for orchestrating a network of heists. His group were accused of breaking into a vault two stories below the Antwerp Diamond Center. The group took around $100 million in diamonds, gold, and other jewels.

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Robbery through a church - On January 20, 1976, men associated with the Palestine Liberation Association took advantage of the chaos of the civil war and entered the British Bank of the Middle East in Beirut, Lebanon. The robbers burst through a wall shared by the bank and a church. The individuals took goods worth between $20 and $50 million.

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Banco Central burglary - Approximately $70 million was taken in the biggest bank heist in Brazil. Between August 6 and 7, 2005, thieves entered the Banco Central in Fortaleza through a tunnel that had taken three months to dig. The crime was only rumbled on August 8.

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The Great Train Robbery - On August 8, 1963, a postal train was robbed in England. The crime took place when the train passed through the amusingly named Bridgeo Bridge. The robbers took an amount that would be equivalent to $78 million nowadays.

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Robbery in broad daylight - On August 14, 1962, armed men robbed a mail van making a delivery to the Federal Reserve in Boston. The vehicle contained over $1.5 million in bills. Armed with shotguns and helped by accomplices to divert traffic, the robbers made off with it all.

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Lufthansa heist - On December 11, 1978 a group of masked and armed thieves hid in a van at JFK International Airport in New York. Around 3 am, the group drove the van to the terminal and took money and jewelry from a safe. Adjusted for inflation, the loot they made off with would be worth around $22 million today. The crime was portrayed in various books and films, including 'Goodfellas.'

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Fearless robber - DB Cooper was the alias of a man who hijacked a Boeing 727 in airspace over Washington state on November 24, 1971. He gave specific instructions to the crew for altitude, angle of the wings, and speed before parachuting from the plane with approximately $200,000. He was never identified.

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Art robbery - Between 1995 and 2001, Stéphane Breitwieser stole 230 works of art from museums and exhibitions. His collection was valued at around $2 billion. In 2005, he was arrested and sentenced to three years in prison.

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In through the floor - In the early hours of December 30, 2007, a group of robbers made a hole in the floor of the Chelenbra Bank in Kerala, India. They made off with $8 million rupees. Two months after the heist, the robbers were detained.

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Knightsbridge Security Deposit - In 1987, two men entered the Knightsbridge Security Deposit in London and requested to make a deposit. After accessing the vault, they tied up the manager and security personnel. All of the involved were eventually detained, including the orchestrator of the plan, Valerio Viccei.

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Slim chances - One of the managers of the Agricultural Bank of China embezzled nearly $26,000 from the bank. The plan was to spend all the money on lottery tickets and pay back the stolen money from the winnings. The manager pulled it off and returned the embezzled money, but he tried the stunt again and got caught.

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Secure plan - In 1997, on the premises of a security company in Los Angeles, an employee organized a plan to hold up the company's armored vans. The thieves managed to take approximately $19 million. Around $14 million was recuperated.

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Security warehouse heist - In February 2006, a gang robbed a security deposit operated by Securitas in one of the biggest heists in the history of the UK. According to the BBC, the robbery was carried out with military precision. The robbers took a lottery's worth of loot and even left some behind for lack of space. They got away with around $90 million.

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Double Jeweler's assault - In 2007, four men passed themselves off as builders and took around $5 million's worth of jewels from Harry Winston Jewelry in Paris. A year later, they gained access again and took approximately $108 million. In 2011, police officers found jewels worth $19 million hidden in a drain, but most of the stolen material was never recovered. According to the BBC, eight men were detained in connection to this incident.

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Northern Bank robbery - On December 20, 2004, robbers took approximately $39 million from the Northern Bank Headquarters in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The robbery was allegedly orchestrated by the IRA.

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Sonali Bank Robbery - On January 26, 2014, in Kishoreganj, Bangladesh, a branch of Sonali Bank was robbed by several men. The robbers took 169 million takas (Bangladeshi currency). The two individuals dug a tunnel from inside a house into the bank's safe. They were caught.

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The almost-perfect crime - An armed robbery was carried out on January 17, 1950, in the Brink’s Building, in Boston. At the time it was considered the crime of the century in the United States. The robbers took around $2 million. There were few clues left behind, but the robbers were later detained.

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Brink's-MAT robbery - On November 26, 1983, six individuals held up a Brink's warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London. They took around $35 million in gold bullion from a warehouse belonging to Johnson Mathey Banks Ltd. Most of the gold was never recovered despite the detainment of several people.

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Promissory notes stolen - On September 14 1828, a group of five men entered a Bank of Australia vault through a sewage tunnel and took approximately $14,000 in promissory notes and coins. The robbers were eventually caught.

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Iranian heist - The son of Saddam Hussein lifted around a $1 billion from the Iranian Central Bank just a few hours before the Americans bombed Baghdad in 2003. It is thought to be the biggest heist in history.

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Historic robbery - This is known as the first bank robbery in the history of the United States. It took place at the Bank of Pennsylvania on September 1, 1798. Approximately $160,000 was taken.

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Museum robbery - On March 18, 1990, works of art totaling an estimated $500 million were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. It all happened late at night while St. Patrick's Day celebrations were taking place in the city. To this day, the works have never been found.

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