
Abandoned Places
Fordlândia vs Jaguari: When American Rubber Dreams Died in the Amazon
In the 1920s, Henry Ford carved two American-style towns deep in the Amazon jungle to fuel his tire empire. Today, both Fordlândia and Jaguari stand as eerie monuments to industrial hubris, where Art Deco water towers rust beside strangler figs and the rainforest slowly devours what Ford once called the future.

