Yes, you can.
The website with valuable, unique and interesting content has a good cost with the eyes of search machine. Moreover it depends of the competition, if your objects are rare and normally there is no big competition with the information you are trying to promote you can be sure that Google for example will rank it in a good way. Let me say the website information cost more than backlinks you are looking to get.
Yes, you can even rank if you have a lot of errors on your website with the scanning of modern HTML or do not connect to any search engine. But as I told you you need to have a powerful content and small competition with other websites in rank.