Village Bay, the flooded caldera of an ancient volcano, is the only landing place on Hirta and the site of the islanders' last village. Main Street is a curving row of stone cottages built in the 1860s to replace the old turf-roofed black houses. The National Trust for Scotland has re-roofed several, and No. 3 has been turned into a small museum telling the story of the community and its evacuation. The church and schoolroom have been restored to how they might have looked in the 1920s.
Around and above the street are the cleitean — more than 1,200 of them on Hirta — dome-shaped drystone huts with turf roofs, built so the wind blew through and kept stored birds, eggs and peat dry. Look for the Soay sheep among them and listen for the St Kilda wren.