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Windmills

Holland, Michigan

Windmill Island Gardens

The park is home to the United States's only still-operating Dutch windmill.

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Brouwerij’t IJ

This bird-loving brewery is situated in an old municipal bathhouse, nestled beside a 300-year-old windmill.

Arcadia, California

Denny's Windmill

A relic from a forgotten bakery chain still spins atop a diner.

Comet Windmill

Penong, Australia

Penong Windmill Museum

A tiny town's spinning, whirling propeller collection holds Australia's largest windmill.

Nottingham, England

Green's Mill

A curious urban windmill once owned by a renowned British mathematical physicist.

Consuegra, Spain

Consuegra Windmills

This line of 12 tower mills described in the story of Don Quixote is among the most iconic landscapes in Spain.

The Pitstone Windmill

Ivinghoe, England

The Pitstone Windmill

This windmill is believed to be the oldest in the British Isles.

Brixton Windmill

London, England

Brixton Windmill

A fully functional, 200-year-old remnant of the time when Brixton was mostly fields.

Heckington Windmill

Heckington, England

Heckington 8-Sail Windmill

The last working windmill in the U.K. that has eight sails.

The watermill.

Frutillar, Chile

German Colonial Museum

A sliver of 19th-century Germany sits on the shore of a Chilean lake.

St Monans windmill and salt pans.

Anstruther, Scotland

St Monans Salt Pans

The ruins of Scottish sea salt production.

The Mid-America Windmill Museum, in Kendallville, Indiana.

The Iconic Windmills That Made the American West

They may look quaint, but these "wind engines" were innovative and technically profound.

Ryan Schnurr January 15, 2018

Ancient windmills in Nashtifan village.

Nashtifan, Iran

Nashtifan Windmills

The vertical-axis windmills of ancient Persia have been grinding flour for 1,000 years and counting.

Vermeer Windmill in downtown Pella, Iowa.

Vermeer Windmill

An Iowa town celebrates its heritage with the tallest working Dutch windmill in North America.

The 15th Century Merchants house that started it all.

Stoke Heath, England

The Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings

A slightly surreal menagerie of structures that were lovingly spared from demolition and reconstructed in a field.

Watch These Daredevils Take a Spin on 55-Foot Windmill Sails

It's like revolving on a much less secure Ferris wheel.

Lauren Young September 7, 2016

Mustjala Parish, Estonia

Ninase Windmills

Two old windmills got a new life as oversized sculptures of a man and a woman.

Permanently Closed

View from the platform

Swaffham, England

Green Britain Centre Wind Turbine

Climb to the top of this windmill for a scenic panorama and up-close look at wind energy production.