Metropolitan Museum of Art at Night

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, shown here at night, is on Fifth Avenue in New York City's Upper East Side.

A new lighting design in 2015 beautifully shows off the Beaux-Arts facade of the museum after dark. The facade of the central building, seen here, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and was opened to the public in 1902. The north and south wings were added a few years later, designed by Charles Follen McKim for the firm of McKim, Mead, and White in the same neoclassical, Beaux Arts style as the center building.

This view shows one of the two, 48-jet programmable granite fountains, located in the David H. Koch Plaza. Redesigned in 2014-2015, these modern, year-round, energy-efficient fountains feature synchronized light (LED) and water shows, replacing 1970s-era fountains, The plaza includes granite borders around the fountains for seating.