21-year-old Ukrainian Valeria Lukyanova undergoes surgery to become real-life Barbie doll

Lake Travis in Texas used to be a perfect party lake and an exclusive yacht club. But now it is almost gone due to long periods of drought. It will take years for Lake Travis to recover.

The funny, the absurd, and the truly inspiring.

These people need help.

The photos were made inside Cranberry Street Tunnel between Brooklyn and Manhattan underneath the East River.

Humberstone is an abandoned saltpeter refinery located in the Atacama Desert in the Region of Tarapacá in northern Chile. In 1970, after becoming ghost town, it was declared national monument and opened to tourism. In 2005 it was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.

Before and after Superstorm Sandy. Aerial images.

Mexican smugglers tried to drive over the wall between the US and Mexico near Yuma, Arizona. They built a ramp but got stuck anyway. The smugglers left the car hanging and disappeared. Border patrol agents found the car perched atop the fence.

16 new Fisker Carma cars were destroyed at Port Newark, New Jersey after it was hit by hurricane Sandy. One Fisker Carma car costs around $100,000.

Abandoned Red Cross hospital in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.

Fire in Breezy Point was triggered by Hurricane Sandy.

Don’t share these images from storms past, or storms that never existed.

Hurricane Sandy is coming. Here are interesting facts about New York City And Hurricanes. By the way, I was in New York when Irene hit it last year. I stayed inside and had extra time for Acidcow.com updates.

It happened on October, 18, 2012. A guy named Chad was driving a road on St. James Island in South Carolina. It was the night before his wedding.

Patience Beard was born with a proximal femoral focal deficiency (one leg was way shorter than the other) that eventually required amputation.

Sad photos of African kids playing soccer.