"Walkable Roller Coaster", Duisburg, Germany
Perhaps my favorite wide-angle photograph from 2013. This large sculpture is a "walkable roller coaster" (except, of course, for the loop, which is gated closed anyway). Conditions were bad for photography - an overcast sky, with flat light - but I like the way that the 'arms' of the sculpture draw the viewer's attention into the center. (July 13, 2013. Nikon D5000, 1/1250s @ f/7.1, 19mm, ISO 200.)
'Walkable Roller Coaster', Duisburg, Germany
Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany
Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany
Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany
The old coke works, Ruhr Museum, Essen, Germany
Externsteine, Germany
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Externsteine
Karl Junker house, Lemgo, Germany
A weird house designed and built by schizophrenic architect Karl Junker. http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/karl-junker-house
Site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, south of Hamburg, Germany
This camp was liberated by the British and Canadians in April 1945. More than 50,000 people died here.
A memorial to Anne Frank and her sister, who died in Bergen-Belsen
This is not their grave; they were buried in one of the many mass graves here.
One of the many mass graves in Bergen-Belsen
The sign reads "Here rest 5000 dead. April 1945".
Site of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp. (Each of the large mounds is a mass grave.)