Things look different from up there and a bird's-eye perspective can make ordinary places look like extraordinary artworks. Click through the gallery to see incredible aerial images of our planet ...

Being in an official International Dark Sky Place won’t be crucially important — because of the moon’s phase — but getting away from the city to a good, dark view down to the horizon will be.

Instead, we see it as an arc of light across the night sky. It's one of the most beautiful sights in nature, but it requires a dark sky and dark-adapting your eyes for about 10-20 minutes.

With more sightings of the northern lights across the U.S. than usual in recent years, now is an excellent time to make the trek to a Dark Sky Place. Even if you don't see the rainbow of colors ...

Today’s article is about just that: the most beautiful places that netizens have visited ... and it felt like I was standing in the middle of the sky. Unreal. This forest in Scotland.