Words and Photos by Jacob Enevold Jensen<\/em><\/p>\n A tall windmill with enormous wings towers over a small town. Red and white flags hang everywhere, shops with peculiar foods rule the streets and people walk by and smile like they\u2019re in the happiest place on earth. From the looks of it, you\u2019d think you were in the Scandinavian country of Denmark, but this is Elk Horn, Iowa.<\/p>\n Elk Horn is a Danish settlement that was established in 1868 by Christian Jensen. It\u2019s not the biggest of towns. It is currently home to 750 people, but it attracts more than 60,000 visitors every year.<\/p>\n Their secret? An authentic Danish windmill from 1848 that was built in N\u00f8rre Snede, Denmark, more than 4,000 miles away. It is the only Danish windmill in the United States. Even after more than 150 years and a trip across the Atlantic Ocean, it still works.<\/p>\n But transporting a windmill that weighs 44,000 pounds is no easy task. You\u2019d have to be a little crazy to come up with this idea, said Lisa Riggs, the mill\u2019s manager.<\/p>\n \u201cBack in 1975, we were just a little farming community at about 650 residents, and Kimballton was about 300 residents, and we were called the Danish villages,\u201d Lisa Riggs said. \u201cThen one of our men got the craziest idea to purchase a windmill from Denmark.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\t\t