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Stonehenge, a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England.

Corfe Castle, Dorset, built in the 11th century, with major structural changes made in the 12th century.

Canterbury Cathedral in Canterbury, Kent. Founded in the 6th century, the cathedral was completely rebuilt in the 11th century and then later largely rebuilt in the Gothic style in 1174, with significant eastward extensions to accommodate...

Plaque from a late 9th- or early 10th-century burial at Scar, Sanday in the Orkney Islands, Scotland. Orkney Museum. The plaque, carved from one piece of whalebone into the shape of two dragons facing each other, was found in...

The Jaquet-Droz automata are three doll automata built by Pierre Jaquet-Droz, between 1768 and 1774. Musée d'Art et d'Histoire of Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

SS Great Britain, a museum ship and former passenger steamship now located in Bristol. It was the largest passenger ship in the world from 1845 to 1854. Made by Brunel, for the Great Western Steamship Company's transatlantic service between...

Roman amphitheatre of Avenches, Switzerland, built in the early 2nd century CE, in use until the 4th century CE, used as a stone quarry afterwards. In the 11th century, a fortified tower was built on its eastern entrance and today it serves...

Statue of Saint Helena of Constantinople by Andrea Bolgi (1605-1656). St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican.

A 1902 oil on canvas, Old Winegrower in Moret, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. Moret-sur-Loing was a small village on the edge of the Fontainebleau forest. One is tempted to see an autobiographical...

An 1899 oil on canvas, Siesta, by Camille Pissarro (1830-1903), the Danish-French impressionist painter. An unusual subject given the artist's obsession with capturing the peasantry at work. (Private Collection)