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All the United States North Carolina Ocracoke

The Atlas Obscura Guide To Ocracoke

2 Cool, Hidden, and Unusual Things to Do in Ocracoke, North Carolina

Updated November 30, 2016

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A church still stands in Portsmouth, NC.

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Portsmouth Village

A forgotten sea village stands silent after hurricanes deemed it obsolete.
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British Cemetery of Ocracoke

The North Carolina grounds are leased in perpetuity to the British Commonwealth for as long as the WWII sailors are buried there.
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Thousands of bags of chips washed up on Hatteras Island.

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Shipwrecked Doritos

The time thousands of bags of chips washed ashore in the Outer Banks is memorialized in a local museum.
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The Hatteras Weather Bureau Station.

Hatteras, North Carolina

Hatteras Weather Bureau Station

This historic sunny-yellow building has an unfortunate connection to the sinking of the Titanic.
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Futuro House in Frisco, North Carolina

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Outer Banks Futuro House

The only known Futuro house in North Carolina sits along a stretch of desolate highway on the Outer Banks.  .
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Every state in the union has graves, and their share of unusual burials or cemeteries, but there's something about the Tarheel State's final resting places that carry a sense of history and mystery, from long-forgotten graveyards, to eternal resting places for conjoined twins, to a politician that had himself buried inside a giant boulder.

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