Photo: Carol Laiate

Traveling through the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, one might expect to run across many strange and fascinating things — but an American ghost town probably wouldn’t be one of them. Yet deep in the world’s largest rainforest lies the abandoned remnants of Fordlândia, a remote US-style factory… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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