44 places from our The Outer Hebrides guide, from Barra & Vatersay to The Uists & Benbecula. Each links to its area guide and, where we have one, its official site.
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Historic houseCategory A listed 19th-century house by the B887 in North Harris, now run as exclusive accommodation and a sporting estate.
Other sightArts centre on the Stornoway waterfront with an art gallery, a cinema, an auditorium and a café bar.
Other sightMemorial on Vatersay to the emigrant ship Annie Jane, wrecked off the island in 1853 with the loss of about 350 lives.
Historic houseFully furnished thatched blackhouse where a family and its animals once lived under one roof, run by Historic Environment Scotland.
Park or natureSandy bay on the west coast of Barra at Tangasdale, on the island ring road.
Park or natureRSPB reserve on the west coast of North Uist with sandy beaches, a rocky shore, marshes and dunes.
Other sightNeolithic chambered cairn about 5,000 years old, around 22 metres across and 5.5 metres high, on North Uist.
Park or natureAirport on the tidal bay of Tràigh Mhòr, opened in 1936, where scheduled flights land on the beach.
Other sightRuined 14th-century tower house, also called Castle Wearie, in the south-west of Benbecula; a scheduled monument.
Other sightUnpainted red-brick lighthouse by David Stevenson, built in the 1860s at the northern tip of Lewis and automated in 1998.
Other sightNeolithic stone circle with stone rows, built around 2750 BC and cared for by Historic Environment Scotland, with a visitor centre nearby.
Other sightSingle standing stone about 5.8 metres high in Ballantrushal, said to be the tallest in Scotland; it is the last stone of a circle.
Other sightIron Age broch in a loch about 9.5 km north of Lochmaddy; a building was raised on the site in the late medieval period.
Other sightWell-preserved broch on a rocky knoll above Loch Carloway; on its east side the wall still stands about 9 metres high.
Other sightInter-tidal sea stack near Knockaird with ruined buildings and a turf wall, the traditional stronghold of the Morrisons of Ness.
Other sightIron Age broch on the west coast of South Uist, near Bornish.
Other sightLighthouse on the east coast of Scalpay, the first in the Hebrides and one of the four original Northern Lights.
Other sightNine restored thatched cottages by the shore at Garenin, lived in until 1974; now holiday cottages, a café and a hostel.
Park or natureHighest hill on Barra at 383 metres, about 1.5 km north-east of Castlebay, with views south over the Barra Isles.
Park or natureWhite-sand beach at the end of a 19 km single-track road, looking out to the uninhabited island of Scarp.
Other sightMemorial to the Iolaire, wrecked at the mouth of Stornoway harbour on New Year's Day 1919 with more than 200 lives lost.
Other sightDistillery in Tarbert making Harris gin and whisky, the first legal distillery built on Harris; CalMac mentions tours and tastings.
MuseumMuseum of South Uist life with more than 10,000 items, plus a café and a craft shop, in a former school.
CastleMedieval castle on a rock in Castlebay, seat of the chief of Clan Macneil, reached by a short boat trip from the village.
Other sightMemorial completed in 1924 on the highest point of Stornoway, remembering Lewis men lost in the First World War and the Iolaire.
CastleVictorian country house built in the 1840s for Sir James Matheson; the modern extension houses Museum & Tasglann nan Eilean, opened in 2016.
Park or natureLong sandy beach on the west coast of Harris, reached from the A859 by a minor road.
Other sightShell of an early 18th-century house built for the Clanranald chief and said to have burned down in 1715.
Other sightLarge sculpture of the Madonna and Child on the hillside above the A865 in South Uist.
Other sightPrehistoric stone circle on North Uist near Langass; the Gaelic name can be translated as Fionn's people.
Park or nature
Other sightGeorgian folly near the village of Scolpaig in the north-west of North Uist.
Park or natureSandy beach beside the A859 at Seilebost, across the estuary from Luskentyre.
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Cathedral or church
Other sightStone setting on a low hill once thought to be a cairn and stone circle, which may in fact be an early farmstead.
MuseumMuseum and arts centre in Lochmaddy for heritage, visual arts and Gaelic culture, with a café and exhibitions.
Other sightWest Harris Trust centre on the coast road with a café, a gift shop and events.
Cathedral or churchSt Moluag's Church in Eoropie, reached on foot along a short path from the road and one of the busiest visitor sites in Ness.
Other sightRuins of a 13th-century Augustinian nunnery at Carinish, believed to be a daughter house of the Iona nunnery.
Park or natureAt 799 metres the highest mountain in the Outer Hebrides and its only Corbett; expect boggy ground and rain.
Park or natureWide shallow bay of cockle sand at the north end of Barra that doubles as the airport runway.
Park or natureWide sands of Tràigh Ùige in the far west of Lewis; the 12th-century Lewis chessmen were found at Uig in 1831.
Park or natureBàgh Siar and Bàgh a Deas, sandy bays on the west and south of Vatersay, the southernmost inhabited island in the chain.
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