April White

Joined Atlas Obscura in 2017

Writer and historian. Author of THE DIVORCE COLONY, the astonishing true story of the 19th-century socialites who revolutionized marriage and found freedom on the American frontier. Former Atlas Obscura senior editor, frequent AO contributor

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Articles by April White

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A wild vervet monkey, native to Africa, dines near the Fort Lauderdale International Airport rental car area in 2021.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: An Accidental Mummy, a Murdered Tree, and More From Around the Web

Get a peek into what we’re obsessed with right now.

This is not exactly how most animals react to an eclipse.

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Six Stories to Illuminate the Upcoming 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse

The annular eclipse will make its way across the Western Hemisphere on October 14.

An extremely rare purple-red diamond came from the Argyle volcano and mine in Western Australia, source of almost all of the world's pink diamonds.

science

Wonder Is Everywhere: Lincoln’s Crooked Bowtie, the Mystery of Pink Diamonds, and More From Around the Web

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Cartographer Antonio Zatta included Lake de Fonte on this 1776 map. It never existed.

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7 Maps That Can Change How You See the World

Plus: Our definitive guide to the world’s extraordinary sights.

Wonder Is Everywhere: A Message in an Egg Carton, Millions of Confused Bees, and More From Around the Web

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Wonder Is Everywhere: A Message in an Egg Carton, Millions of Confused Bees, and More From Around the Web

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In Rome, students can still learn to be gladiators.

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13 Surprising Things You Didn’t Learn in Your Regular Old School

(And one weird skill that you probably did, for some reason.)

A bouquiniste, or traditional seller of vintage and antique books, on the bank of the Seine in Paris in August 2023.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: The Island of Cows, a Parisian Bookseller Revolt, and More From Around the Web

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Spotted skunks perform impressive handstands to appear twice their size and ward off would-be predators.

science

10 Tales of the World’s Quirkiest Animals

A celebration of curious, overlooked, and misunderstood creatures.

The Cyberia Cafe in London, 1995. Internet cafes are now vanishingly rare.

science

Wonder Is Everywhere: The Last Internet Cafes, a Totem Pole Mystery, and More From Around the Web

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The unsanctioned Cannonball Run—an approximately 2,700-mile race from New York to California—involves driving extremely, illegally fast on public roads.

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6 Winding Tales of Epic Road Trips

Including the United States' first coast-to-coast car adventure, its fastest, and one of its absolute worst.

A jumping spider in Manila, Philippines.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: Spider Wrestling, the Return of the Giant Peanut, and More from Around the Web

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A supermoon over the Rocky Mountains. Two supermoons—a full moon at the orb's closest point to Earth—will occur in August 2023.

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8 Amazing Tales of Our Eternal Fascination With the Moon

Inside the race to map, explore, own, and even spend eternity on the lunar surface.

J. Robert Oppenheimer, in an undated photo, doing math without looking.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: Inside Oppenheimer’s Los Alamos, the End of the Hermit House, and More From Around the Web

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Visitors to Beijing's City Wall can enjoy ice cream in the shape of its front gate.

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6 Stories That Will Make You Scream—For Ice Cream

Take a deep dive into the delicious stories behind a world of frozen treats.

Blood Falls seeps from the end of the Taylor Glacier into Lake Bonney.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: The Mystery of Blood Falls, a Carrier Pigeon Comeback, and More from Around the Web

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A still from a recently declassified Navy video from 2015 depicting ... well, no one is quite sure.

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6 Stories of Aliens and the Unexplained That Are Just Out of This World

Centuries of strange tales, from ETs to flying saucers, to celebrate World UFO Day.

Sepp Kipfstuhl of the East Greenland Ice-Core Project examines a sample taken from where fast-moving and slow-moving ice meet in the Greenland Ice Sheet.

science

Wonder Is Everywhere: The New Tornado Alley, the Coolest Library in the World, and More From Around the Web

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How do historians piece together long-lost stories of those who would be considered part of the LGBTQIA+ community?

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5 Overlooked LGBTQ Stories to Celebrate Pride Month

How do you learn—and save—a history that was often too dangerous to write down?

This seems like a perfectly reasonable way to decorate a home in a fancy neighborhood. Maybe?

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Wonder Is Everywhere: A Fight Over Optimus Prime, the Richmond Rat Boy, and More From Around the Web

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On the foggy morning of July 22, 1906, King Cadwallon struck rocks off the coast of St Martin's Island. A photographer from the Gibson family boarded a rowboat to get this image before the ship sank completely beneath the waves.

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One English Family Took Photos of Shipwrecks for More Than a Century

Now it's the negatives themselves that need to be saved from time and the elements.

After the destruction caused along the Miami beaches by Hurricane Andrew, in 1992, five new lifeguard stations were created, striking colorful, geometric figures on the waterfront. Another wave of these buildings appeared in 2015.

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Kick Off Summer With 7 Unique Beach Reads About the Beach

Surprising stories from where land meets sea.

Some 60 years ago, an ancient Olmec sculpture known as the "Earth Monster" was stolen. Last week, it went home to Mexico.

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Wonder Is Everywhere: Buying a Ghost Town, Finding the Earth Monster, and More From Around the Web

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No knife and fork needed to eat the original Caesar.

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The Original Caesar Salad Was Finger Food

The world's most famous salad started as a Tijuana trend.

St. Malo, perhaps the oldest Asian community in the United States, as depicted in an 1883 report by Harper’s Weekly.

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7 Must-Read Stories to Mark AAPI Heritage Month

Some of our favorite tales of tragedy, joy, protest, love, and surfing.