A merry-go-round turns inside the cooling tower of the former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, western Germany, on May 28. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986. Now it has been converted to a leisure park and receives some 600,000 visitors a year.

Visitors sit in a merry-go-round turning on the compound of the former nuclear power plant in Kalkar, western Germany, near the border with the Netherlands, on May 28. The plant was constructed from 1977 to 1986, but was never operating as nuclear power plant. Today, the plant, built at a cost of some 7 billion Deutsche Mark, was converted to a leisure fun park "Wunderland Kalkar" and receives some 600,000 visitors a year and employs about 550 people on the high season