In the early 1920s, American businessman Henry Ford set out an audacious plan for the middle of the Amazon rainforest. It was called Fordlândia, an industrial town that would have near unlimited access to rubber trees. 

But the project failed by the mid-1930s and would be abandoned for decades until the early 2010s. People began returning to the town, and it now has a population of 3,000. Take a look and learn about this locale.