The Tele­graph has com­piled a nice list of The 50 Best Works of Art (and how to see them)

Zen gar­den, Ryoan-ji Tem­ple
(late 15th cen­tury) Kyoto, Japan
Get­ting there: bearable

This is the most cel­e­brated exam­ple of what in Japan­ese is called a kare­san­sui, or “dry land­scape”. Since it con­sists of noth­ing but raked white sandy gravel and mossy stones, it could, in West­ern terms, be thought of as a sculp­tural instal­la­tion. Its point, achieved with incom­pa­ra­ble sim­plic­ity and ele­gance, is one of the fun­da­men­tal objec­tives of art: to focus med­i­ta­tion on the mys­tery of existence.

Obvi­ously there are going to be works you want to be on this list and those you believe don’t merit a place on it — still, it’s interesting.

via Kot­tke