Amazon ruins await adventurous World Cup visitors

By Jenny Barchfield

Published May 30, 2014 3:52pm ET

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Amazon ruins await adventurous World Cup visitors — In this May 21, 2014 photo, A boy kicks a penalty during a soccer match in the ruins of Paricatuba, near Manaus, Brazil. Children of the tiny village of Paricatuba, which grew up around the villa, use the ruins as a spot for energetic games of barefoot soccer or to scare themselves silly. Teenagers come here to make out, and older people to get drunk. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana) | Felipe Dana

PARICATUBA, Brazil (AP) — If Hollywood were to set a psychological thriller in the Amazon rainforest, the haunting Paricatuba Ruins would be the perfect backdrop.

Massive root structures poke through the foundations of the once-stately neo-classical edifice, across the Rio Negro from the jungle metropolis of Manaus, one of the cities set to host World Cup matches.

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