Budapest/Hungary
Széchenyi Thermal Bath
Budapest's grand neo-baroque bathing palace, where mineral water fills vast outdoor pools beneath ochre colonnades.
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226 thermal baths
Grindavík/Iceland
Blue Lagoon
Milky, silica-rich geothermal water set in a black lava field on the Reykjanes peninsula.
Hakone/Japan
Hakone Yumoto Onsen
The oldest onsen district in Hakone, where ryokan baths look onto the Sukumo river valley.
Längenfeld/Austria
Aqua Dome Tirol Therme
Sulphur-rich alpine water in bowl-shaped pools under the Ötztal peaks.
Budapest/Hungary
Gellért Thermal Bath
Budapest's most photographed bathing hall: Art Nouveau mosaics, glass roof and mineral water from the Gellért Hill springs.
Bath/United Kingdom
Thermae Bath Spa
Britain's only natural thermal spa, with a rooftop pool over the Georgian rooftops of Bath.
Valdidentro/Italy
QC Terme Bagni Vecchi
Roman cave baths and a cliff-edge panoramic pool above Bormio.
Subang/Indonesia
Sari Ater Ciater Hot Springs
Sulphurous volcanic water from Tangkuban Perahu, in the tea country north of Bandung.
Miskolc/Hungary
Miskolctapolca Cave Bath
Warm water flowing through natural limestone caves.
Hévíz/Hungary
Hévíz Thermal Lake
The largest biologically active thermal lake in the world, warm all year.
Rotorua/New Zealand
Polynesian Spa
Lakeside alkaline and acidic mineral pools on the shore of Lake Rotorua.
Beppu/Japan
Takegawara Onsen
Beppu's 1879 bathhouse, known for its hot sand baths.
Egerszalók/Hungary
Saliris Resort Egerszalók
A white salt hill built by 65–68°C water, with terraced pools below.
Tbilisi/Georgia
Abanotubani Sulphur Baths
Domed brick bathhouses over Tbilisi's sulphur springs, in use for centuries.
Loutra Pozar/Greece
Loutra Pozar Thermal Baths
Macedonian thermal springs where hot water falls into open-air pools at the foot of Mount Kaimaktsalan.
Cajamarca/Peru
Baños del Inca
The hot springs in the northern Peruvian Andes where Atahualpa was camped in 1532.
Dobrna/Slovenia
Terme Dobrna
Slovenia's oldest working spa, first documented in 1403, set in a wooded valley of Styrian parkland and historic bath houses.
Ojo Caliente/United States
Ojo Caliente Mineral Springs
A historic New Mexico spring resort with an unusual combination of four mineral waters.
Ptuj/Slovenia
Terme Ptuj
Thermal pools beside the Drava in Slovenia's oldest town.
Minakami/Japan
Hōshi Onsen Chōjūkan
A Meiji-era wooden bathhouse in the Gunma mountains, bathing over its own spring.
Gerês/Portugal
Termas do Gerês
Fluoride-rich bicarbonate springs in a granite village inside Portugal's only national park.
Bagni San Filippo/Italy
Bagni San Filippo
Free, open-air calcareous cascades in the woods below Monte Amiata.
Bad Kleinkirchheim/Austria
Thermal Römerbad
Carinthian mountain thermae on the St Kathrein spring, which emerges at about 24 °C.
Schinznach-Bad/Switzerland
Thermalbad Bad Schinznach
Switzerland's most strongly mineralised sulphur spring.
Panticosa/Spain
Termas de Tiberio - Balneario de Panticosa
A high Pyrenean spa at 1,636 metres, built as a nineteenth-century mountain resort around granite springs.
Karlovy Vary/Czechia
Alžbětiny Lázně [Elizabeth Spa]
The grandest of Karlovy Vary's bathhouses, still offering classic Bohemian spa treatment.
Budapest/Hungary
Lukács Thermal Bath
The bathers' bath of Budapest, with plaques of thanks on its walls.
Bizovac/Croatia
Bizovačke Toplice
The hottest water in eastern Croatia, from a deep Slavonian well.
Rimske Toplice/Slovenia
Rimske Terme
A Habsburg-era spa in a wooded Slovenian valley, thermal water at 38–42°C.
Hamat Gader/Israel
Hamat Gader
Roman thermal baths and open pools in the Yarmouk valley, water to about 50°C.
Monsummano Terme/Italy
Grotta Giusti Thermal Spa Resort
A nineteenth-century thermal cave in Tuscany, discovered by quarry workers and later described by Giuseppe Verdi as the eighth wonder of the world.
Banjar/Indonesia
Air Panas Banjar
Carved naga spouts pouring warm sulphur water in the hills of north Bali.
Flúðir/Iceland
Secret Lagoon (Gamla Laugin)
Iceland's oldest swimming pool, a steaming natural basin ringed by small geysers.
Thermopolis, Wyoming/United States
State Bath House, Hot Springs State Park
A free public bathhouse at the foot of one of the world's largest mineral hot springs.
Aachen/Germany
Carolus Thermen Bad Aachen
A modern thermal bath drawing on the hottest springs north of the Alps, in Charlemagne's spa city.
Bük/Hungary
Bükfürdő Thermal & Spa
A western Hungarian thermal park whose 58°C alkaline water was found in 1957 during another failed search for oil.
Yunomine Onsen/Japan
Tsuboyu, Yunomine Onsen
A tiny wooden hut over a spring in the Kumano mountains — the only bathing place inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
Tikitere, Rotorua/New Zealand
Hell's Gate Geothermal Park & Mud Spa
A Māori-owned geothermal reserve at Tikitere with steaming mud pools, sulphur lakes and a warm waterfall.
Chaves/Portugal
Termas de Chaves
The hottest springs in Portugal, rising at over 70°C in a Roman town on the Tâmega.
Cauterets/France
Les Bains du Rocher
A contemporary bathhouse in a Pyrenean valley whose sulphurous springs drew nineteenth-century Europe.
Bad Füssing/Germany
Europa Therme Bad Füssing
One of Europe's busiest thermal towns, built on a sulphurous mineral water found by chance during oil drilling in 1938.
Laško/Slovenia
Thermana Laško
A Slovenian spa on the Savinja river, in use since 1854 and known for its warm, mild thermal water.
Rajecké Teplice/Slovakia
Spa Aphrodite Rajecké Teplice
A small Slovak spa town in a wooded valley, with a bathing hall of white colonnades and mirrored water.
Berkeley Springs/United States
Berkeley Springs State Park
The oldest spa in the United States — warm mineral springs bathed in by George Washington, still running in a small public park.
Dax/France
Thermes Adour de Dax
France's largest thermal town, known for hot Adour-basin water and its distinctive warm river mud.
Saratoga Springs/United States
Roosevelt Baths & Spa
Naturally carbonated mineral baths in a 1935 New Deal bathhouse inside Saratoga Spa State Park.
Băile Felix/Romania
Băile Felix
Romania's warmest spa resort, where thermal water feeds pools and a rare lotus lake.
Velké Losiny/Czechia
Termály Velké Losiny
A Czech spa in the Jeseníky foothills, in continuous use since 1562 and set beside a Renaissance chateau.
Bad Reichenhall/Germany
RupertusTherme
An Alpine brine bath in a Bavarian salt town, using the same AlpenSole that made Bad Reichenhall's fortune.
San Casciano dei Bagni/Italy
Fonteverde, San Casciano dei Bagni
A Tuscan hill-town spa above dozens of hot springs used continuously since Etruscan and Roman times.
Zaō Onsen/Japan
Zaō Onsen Dai-rotenburo
A large open-air bath built into a mountain stream, fed by some of the most strongly acidic water in Japan.
Loipersdorf bei Fürstenfeld/Austria
Therme Loipersdorf
A large Styrian thermal resort in rolling volcanic hill country, built around water drawn from more than a kilometre below the vineyards.
Comano Terme/Italy
Terme di Comano
Trentino spring water at 27 °C, used for skin conditions since the 15th century.
Saturnia/Italy
Terme di Saturnia
Sulphur water at 37.5°C falling through travertine terraces in the Tuscan Maremma.
Daruvar/Croatia
Daruvarske Toplice
A Roman-era Croatian spa where 46 °C mineral water still feeds historic bathing halls.
Budapest/Hungary
Palatinus Strand
Margaret Island's grand open-air bathing complex, fed by the island's thermal wells.
Mondariz-Balneario/Spain
Balneario de Mondariz
A Galician spa resort built around the Gándara and Troncoso mineral springs.
Budapest/Hungary
Rác Thermal Bath
A Buda bath of Ottoman origin, with an octagonal domed pool rebuilt by Miklós Ybl in the 1860s.
Bad Ems/Germany
Emser Therme
A contemporary thermal bath on the Lahn in one of Germany's classic 19th-century spa towns.
Gero/Japan
Gero Onsen
One of Japan's three great hot springs, with 84 °C alkaline water above the Hida river.
Forio d'Ischia/Italy
Giardini Poseidon Terme
Twenty-plus thermal pools terraced above a bay on the volcanic island of Ischia.
Poprad/Slovakia
AquaCity Poprad
Geothermal pools under the High Tatras, powered by its own renewable energy.
Mszczonów/Poland
Termy Mszczonów
Geothermal water from 1,700 metres, bathed in an hour from Warsaw.
Bad Orb/Germany
Toskana Therme Bad Orb
A brine thermal bath in Hesse known for its underwater-sound "Liquid Sound" pool.
Reykholt (Borgarfjörður)/Iceland
Krauma Baths
Baths mixing Europe's most powerful hot spring with cold glacial water in west Iceland.
Egilsstaðir/Iceland
Vök Baths
Floating geothermal pools set into a lake in the east of Iceland.
Saint-Gervais-les-Bains/France
Thermes de Saint-Gervais Mont-Blanc
Alpine thermal baths in a wooded gorge below Mont Blanc, fed by a 39 °C spring.
Busan/South Korea
Hurshimchung, Dongnae Hot Springs
One of Asia's largest hot spring bathhouses, in Busan's ancient spa quarter.
Viterbo/Italy
Terme dei Papi
A 2,000 sqm sulphurous pool fed by the Bullicame spring outside Viterbo.
Bad Ragaz/Switzerland
Tamina Therme
A light-filled modern thermal bath fed by the Tamina Gorge spring.
Ourense/Spain
Termas de Outariz
Free-flowing riverside hot pools on the Miño, in Japanese-inspired terraces.
Erding/Germany
Therme Erding
Europe's largest thermal complex, built over a 1,900-metre-deep spring.
Hot Springs/United States
Quapaw Baths & Spa
Four communal thermal pools inside a restored 1922 Bathhouse Row building.
Baden-Baden/Germany
Caracalla Therme
Baden-Baden's modern thermal bath, opposite the historic Friedrichsbad.
Spa/Belgium
Thermes de Spa
The town that gave the word "spa" its name, on a hill above the valley.
Bad Blumau/Austria
Rogner Bad Blumau
A Hundertwasser village built over hot volcanic springs in Styria.
Taipei/Taiwan
Beitou Millennium Hot Spring
Public open-air hot pools in a wooded valley inside Taipei.
Matsuyama/Japan
Dōgo Onsen Honkan
One of Japan's oldest hot springs, in a wooden bathhouse of 1894.
Bath/United Kingdom
The Roman Baths
Britain's only hot spring, enclosed by a Roman bathing complex with a Georgian pump room above it.
Reykjavík/Iceland
Sky Lagoon
An oceanfront geothermal lagoon on the edge of Reykjavík, with an infinity edge to the North Atlantic.
Baden-Baden/Germany
Friedrichsbad
A neo-renaissance Roman-Irish bath from 1877 where the route through seventeen stations is the point.
Kampong Speu/Cambodia
Te Teuk Pus Hot Spring
One of Cambodia’s few natural hot springs, where mineral water rises from six sources in the foothills of Kampong Speu.
Băile Herculane/Romania
Băile Herculane
Nine thermal springs and imperial bath architecture in the Cerna valley, Romania.
Glenwood Springs/United States
Glenwood Hot Springs Resort
One of the world's largest hot-spring pools, fed by the 50°C Yampah spring in Colorado.
Coñaripe/Chile
Termas Geométricas
Seventeen slate pools along a fern-filled ravine in the Chilean Andes.
Banff/Canada
Banff Upper Hot Springs
Mineral water at around 40°C in an Art Deco bathhouse under Sulphur Mountain.
Sukayu/Japan
Sukayu Onsen
A vast hinoki-cypress bathhouse in the Hakkōda mountains, famous for its acidic sulphur water and thousand-person bath.
Laugarvatn/Iceland
Laugarvatn Fontana
Geothermal steam rooms built directly over natural vents on the shore of Lake Laugarvatn, with pools opening onto the water.
Debrecen/Hungary
Nagyerdei Thermal Bath (Aquaticum)
A thermal bath in Debrecen's Great Forest park, drawing on alkaline, iodine-bearing water discovered in the nineteenth century.
Vienna/Austria
Therme Wien
Vienna's sulphur thermal baths at Oberlaa, rebuilt in 2010 beside the city's largest landscaped spa park.
Bagno Vignoni/Italy
Bagno Vignoni Thermal Village
A Tuscan hamlet built around a 16th-century thermal basin in place of a village square.
Minamioguni (Kurokawa)/Japan
Kurokawa Onsen
A hot-spring village in the Kumamoto highlands where two dozen inns share their baths with day visitors.
Čatež ob Savi/Slovenia
Terme Čatež
Slovenia's largest thermal resort, on the Sava river near the Croatian border.
Piešťany/Slovakia
Spa Piešťany
Slovakia's principal spa, known for sulphurous thermal water and its thick healing mud.
Cacheuta/Argentina
Termas de Cacheuta
Andean hot springs in a mountain gorge an hour from Mendoza city.
Hanmer Springs/New Zealand
Hanmer Springs Thermal Pools & Spa
Alpine thermal pools in North Canterbury, in use as a public bathing resort since the 1880s.
Beppu/Japan
Hyotan Onsen
A Beppu bathhouse in the Kannawa quarter, known for its cascade baths and sand baths.
Bad Gastein/Austria
Felsentherme Bad Gastein
A thermal bath cut into the rock of a high Alpine valley famous for its radon-bearing water.
Loutra Edipsou/Greece
Thermae Sylla Spa
A Belle Époque spa where hot springs run straight into the Aegean.
Istarske Toplice/Croatia
Istarske Toplice
Sulphur springs beneath an eighty-metre limestone cliff in inland Istria, used since Roman times.
Vrnjačka Banja/Serbia
Vrnjačka Banja
Serbia's best-known spa town, built around mineral springs the Romans knew as Aquae Orcinae.
Loutraki/Greece
Loutraki Thermal Spa
A seafront spa town on the Gulf of Corinth whose mineral springs have been bottled and bathed in since antiquity.
Mývatn/Iceland
Mývatn Nature Baths
A geothermal lagoon above Lake Mývatn in northern Iceland, quieter than its southern counterparts.
Obanazawa (Ginzan)/Japan
Ginzan Onsen
A former silver-mining valley in Yamagata lined with Taishō-era wooden ryokan and gas lamps.
Podčetrtek/Slovenia
Terme Olimia
A thermal resort at Podčetrtek in eastern Slovenia, formerly known as Atomske Toplice.
Bad Wildbad/Germany
Palais Thermal
A Moorish-Revival bathing palace in the northern Black Forest, restored to its 19th-century state.
Sirmione/Italy
Aquaria Thermal Spa, Terme di Sirmione
Sulphur-rich thermal water on a peninsula in Lake Garda, at the tip of a Roman resort village.
Scuol/Switzerland
Bogn Engiadina Scuol
A mineral-water bath complex in the Lower Engadine, drawing on Scuol's carbonated springs.
Jiaoxi/Taiwan
Jiaoxi Hot Springs
A rare colourless, odourless bicarbonate spring on the Yilan plain, with public foot baths in the middle of town.
Noboribetsu/Japan
Noboribetsu Onsen
Hokkaido's best-known hot-spring resort, fed by the sulphurous vents of Jigokudani.
Toyooka/Japan
Kinosaki Onsen Sato no Yu
A willow-lined onsen town on the Sea of Japan coast where guests move between seven public bathhouses in yukata and wooden geta.
Arima/Japan
Kin no Yu, Arima Onsen
The public bathhouse at Japan's oldest onsen, where iron-rich "golden water" turns rust-brown on contact with the air.
Moravske Toplice/Slovenia
Terme 3000 Moravske Toplice
The Prekmurje spa built around Slovenia's unusual black thermal water, found by accident during oil drilling.
Monchique/Portugal
Caldas de Monchique
A miniature spa village in the Algarve hills, its alkaline springs used since the Roman occupation of Lusitania.
Archena/Spain
Balneario de Archena
A Murcian spa in a palm garden above the Segura river, with hot sulphurous water and a Moorish-revival casino.
Aix-en-Provence/France
Thermes Sextius
A modern thermal spa built over the Roman springs that gave Aix-en-Provence its name.
Ouray/United States
Ouray Hot Springs Pool
An open-air mineral pool ringed by the San Juan Mountains, in a Colorado box canyon town at 2,400 metres.
Lava Hot Springs/United States
Lava Hot Springs
State-run soaking pools on the Portneuf River in southern Idaho, fed by odourless mineral water since 1902.
Radium Hot Springs/Canada
Radium Hot Springs
Odourless mineral pools in a narrow Rocky Mountain canyon, operated by Parks Canada inside Kootenay National Park.
Hajdúszoboszló/Hungary
Hungarospa Hajdúszoboszló
One of Europe's largest thermal complexes, built around Hajdúszoboszló's famous iodine-rich brown water.
Jáchymov/Czechia
Lázně Jáchymov [Jáchymov Spa]
The world's first radon spa, in a silver-mining valley of the Ore Mountains.
Merano/Italy
Terme Merano
Twenty-five pools in a glass cube between palms and Alpine peaks.
Bad Zurzach/Switzerland
Thermalbad Zurzach
A Swiss thermal bath on the Rhine, fed by 40°C water found in 1955 while prospecting for oil.
Františkovy Lázně/Czechia
Aquaforum - Františkovy Lázně
Inspired by ancient Roman baths, Aquaforum brings modern leisure to Františkovy Lázně, a town with more than two centuries of spa tradition. Its indoor and outdoor pools offer a welcoming retreat within this historic Unesco listed setting.
Minakami/Japan
Takaragawa Onsen Osenkaku
Vast riverside rotenburo along the Takara River in the mountains of Gunma.
Harrison Hot Springs/Canada
Harrison Hot Springs
Two mineral springs at the foot of Harrison Lake, bathed in since the 1880s.
Jasper/Canada
Miette Hot Springs
The hottest mineral water in the Canadian Rockies, in a quiet side valley of Jasper National Park.
Fairmont Hot Springs/Canada
Fairmont Hot Springs Resort
Odourless calcium-rich mineral water in the Columbia Valley, Rocky Mountain Trench.
Ainsworth Hot Springs/Canada
Ainsworth Hot Springs
Mineral water in a horseshoe-shaped cave above Kootenay Lake, British Columbia.
Sembawang/Singapore
Sembawang Hot Spring Park
Singapore's only natural hot spring, channelled into a public cascading foot bath.
Bešeňová/Slovakia
Thermal Park Bešeňová
Terraced geothermal pools above the Liptov basin, backed by the Tatra ranges.
Ibusuki/Japan
Ibusuki Sunamushi Onsen Saraku
Japan's signature sand steam bath, where geothermal heat rises through a black volcanic beach.
Nyūtō Onsen/Japan
Tsurunoyu Onsen
The oldest inn of the Nyūtō onsen villages, with milky sulphur water and thatched Edo-era lodgings.
Húsavík/Iceland
GeoSea Sea Baths
Geothermally heated seawater baths on a cliff above the whale-watching harbour of Húsavík.
Unzen/Japan
Unzen Onsen
Acidic sulphur springs at 700 m on a volcano, beside the steaming ground of the Unzen jigoku.
Tskaltubo/Georgia
Tskaltubo Balneological Resort
Mildly mineralised water at a constant 33–35 °C, the basis of a vast Soviet-era cure town.
Eger/Hungary
Eger Turkish Bath (Törökfürdő)
An Ottoman bath of the early 1600s, still fed by radon-bearing thermal water in the heart of Eger.
Zalakaros/Hungary
Zalakaros Spa
Highly mineralised water from a 1962 well, reaching 96 °C at the wellhead before cooling for the pools.
Bagno di Romagna/Italy
Terme di Sant'Agnese
Sulphate-bicarbonate-alkaline springs in an Apennine village bathed since Roman times.
Montecatini Terme/Italy
Terme Tettuccio
The grandest of Montecatini's drinking-cure halls, rebuilt in 1928 with marble colonnades and painted galleries.
Harrogate/United Kingdom
Harrogate Turkish Baths
Victorian Turkish baths of 1897, with Islamic-influenced arches, glazed brick and terrazzo floors.
São Pedro do Sul/Portugal
Termas de São Pedro do Sul
Portugal's oldest and busiest thermal spa, with water at almost 69°C.
Bad Hofgastein/Austria
Alpentherme Gastein
Radon-bearing Gastein thermal water, piped from springs that surface at up to about 47 °C.
Yverdon-les-Bains/Switzerland
Centre Thermal Yverdon-les-Bains
Sulphurous water drawn from around 500 m depth, arriving at roughly 29 °C.
Lavey-les-Bains/Switzerland
Bains de Lavey
Switzerland's hottest natural spring, emerging at over 60 °C in the Rhône valley.
Leukerbad/Switzerland
Leukerbad Thermal Baths
Alpine thermal water at 1,400 metres, with open pools facing the Gemmi cliffs.
Tuhelj/Croatia
Terme Tuhelj
Zagorje thermal water at about 33 °C, paired with the region's sulphurous mineral mud.
Budapest/Hungary
Rudas Baths
A 16th-century Ottoman bath under an octagonal dome, with a modern rooftop pool over the Danube.
Kusatsu/Japan
Sainokawara Rotenburo
One of Japan's largest open-air baths, in a valley of steaming acidic springs above Kusatsu.
Uniejów/Poland
Termy Uniejów
Poland's first certified thermal resort, fed by hot water from beneath a medieval castle town.
Fairbanks North Star/United States
Chena Hot Springs Resort
A geothermal rock lake in the Alaskan interior, under the aurora from autumn to spring.
Gyula/Hungary
Gyula Castle Bath
Thermal pools set in a parkland garden around the only surviving brick Gothic castle on the Hungarian plain.
Szeged/Hungary
Anna Thermal Bath Szeged
A late nineteenth-century town bath in Szeged, still fed by the Anna well.
Bad Wörishofen/Germany
Therme Bad Wörishofen
A large Bavarian thermal-water leisure bath in the town that gave the world Kneipp therapy.
Bad Nauheim/Germany
Sprudelhof Bad Nauheim
Europe's most complete Jugendstil bathing complex, built around naturally carbonated saline springs.
Hveragerði/Iceland
Reykjadalur Hot Spring River
A hot river in a steaming valley, reached only on foot.
Salsomaggiore Terme/Italy
Terme Berzieri
A 1920s Art Deco thermal palace built over one of Europe's strongest iodine-bromine brines.
Caldes de Boí/Spain
Balneari de Caldes de Boí
A high-Pyrenean spa with dozens of separate springs across a wide temperature range.
Alhama de Aragón/Spain
Balneario Termas Pallarés, Alhama de Aragón
A nineteenth-century Aragonese spa built around a large open thermal lake.
Caldas da Rainha/Portugal
Termas de Caldas da Rainha
Portugal's royal sulphurous baths, founded by Queen Leonor in the fifteenth century.
Shirahone Onsen/Japan
Shirahone Onsen
Milky-white, carbonate-rich mountain onsen in the Japanese Alps.
Yufuin/Japan
Yufuin Onsen
A ryokan town of gentle alkaline springs beneath the twin peaks of Mount Yufu.
Umpqua National Forest/United States
Umpqua Hot Springs
Terraced travertine pools above the North Umpqua River in the Oregon Cascades.
Liard River/Canada
Liard River Hot Springs
British Columbia's second-largest hot spring, in a boreal swamp along the Alaska Highway.
Sárvár/Hungary
Sárvár Spa & Wellness Bath
Two wells, one of them very hot, feeding a large western-Hungarian bath.
Harkány/Hungary
Harkány Thermal Bath
Sulphide-rich water at 62 °C, in use since 1823.
Nozawa Onsen/Japan
Ōyu Bathhouse, Nozawa Onsen
The finest of Nozawa's thirteen free village bathhouses.
Bad Staffelstein/Germany
Obermain Therme
One of Germany's most strongly mineralised thermal brines, in Franconia.
Bad Kissingen/Germany
KissSalis Therme
Bavarian brine bathing in a light, contemporary therme.
Bad Windsheim/Germany
Franken-Therme Bad Windsheim
A dense Franconian brine that floats you like the Dead Sea.
Petriolo/Italy
Terme di Petriolo
Sulphur springs steaming into the Farma river beneath a medieval bath wall.
Luhačovice/Czechia
Lázně Luhačovice
A Moravian drinking-cure spa with Jurkovič's folk-modern architecture.
Bad Ischl/Austria
Salzkammergut-Therme Bad Ischl
Imperial-era salt-town bathing brought up to date in a modern brine therme.
Baños de Montemayor/Spain
Balneario de Baños de Montemayor
Roman vaults still in use above the Vía de la Plata.
Bagnères-de-Luchon/France
Les Thermes de Luchon
Pyrenean sulphur springs and a steam gallery carved into the mountain.
Sovata/Romania
Bear Lake (Lacul Ursu)
The world's largest heliothermic salt lake, warm in layers.
Białka Tatrzańska/Poland
Termy Bania
Deep geothermal water in open-air pools facing the Tatra skyline.
Trenčianske Teplice/Slovakia
Trenčianske Teplice Spa
Sulphurous Slovak thermal water and a Moorish hammam of 1888.
Ocna Sibiului/Romania
Ocna Sibiului Salt Lakes
Saline lakes in collapsed salt mines, some of them heliothermal.
Băile Tușnad/Romania
Băile Tușnad
Romania's smallest town: carbonated springs and mofettes in the Olt gorge.
Bardejovské Kúpele/Slovakia
Bardejovské Kúpele
Cold mineral springs in a wooded Šariš valley, with an imperial history.
Mezőkövesd/Hungary
Zsóry Bath
Alkaline hydrocarbonate water found while drilling for oil.
Orosháza/Hungary
Gyopárosfürdő
A lakeside Great Plain bath rebuilt as a bright thermal park.
Beppu/Japan
Kannawa Mushi-yu
An eight-century steam bath on a floor of medicinal herbs.
Pré-Saint-Didier/Italy
Terme di Pré-Saint-Didier
Alpine thermal water in terraced tubs facing Mont Blanc.
Bagni di Lucca/Italy
Terme Bagni di Lucca
Tuscan cure town of Shelley and Byron, above the Lima river.
Fiuggi/Italy
Terme di Fiuggi
Italy's most famous drinking water, in two woodland spa parks.
Mariánské Lázně/Czechia
Mariánské Lázně
A colonnaded Bohemian resort with more than a hundred springs.
Geinberg/Austria
Therme Geinberg
Hot Innviertel water discovered by oil prospectors in 1998.
Amélie-les-Bains/France
Thermes d'Amélie-les-Bains
Roman sulphur baths in a Catalan valley, still in daily use.
Bagnères-de-Bigorre/France
Les Grands Thermes de Bagnères-de-Bigorre
Pyrenean sulphate springs behind an Art Deco glass hall.
Borjomi/Georgia
Borjomi Mineral Water Park
Georgia's famous carbonated water, drunk at its source.
Zreče/Slovenia
Terme Zreče
Pohorje thermal water paired with mountain peat treatments.
Jelenia Góra/Poland
Termy Cieplice
Silesia's oldest thermal springs, in a Baroque spa quarter below the Karkonosze.
Bukowina Tatrzańska/Poland
Terma Bukovina
Geothermal pools facing the Tatra mountains, water drawn from about 2 km down.
Abano Terme/Italy
Terme Euganee di Abano
Salt-bromine-iodine water rising at around 87 °C, used for pools and for maturing the Euganean fango mud.
Vichy/France
Thermes Les Dômes Vichy
The Belle Époque capital of French thermalism, still in practice.
Turčianske Teplice/Slovakia
Turčianske Teplice Spa
Warm Slovak springs and the blue-tiled Blue Bath of 1860.
Maʿin/Jordan
Maʿin Hot Springs
Hot waterfalls falling through a desert gorge below sea level in Jordan.
Varaždinske Toplice/Croatia
Minerva - Varaždinske Toplice
Roman Aquae Iasae, where sulphurous water surfaces at around 58 °C.
Cardonal/Mexico
Grutas de Tolantongo
Turquoise thermal river and cliff-edge pools in a canyon in Hidalgo, Mexico.
Valdidentro/Italy
QC Terme Bagni Nuovi
A grand 1836 bathhouse above Bormio, fed by alpine springs used since Roman times.
Enniscrone/Ireland
Kilcullen's Seaweed Baths
An Edwardian seaweed bath house on the Sligo coast, working since 1912.
Strandhill/Ireland
VOYA Seaweed Baths
Hand-harvested Atlantic seaweed and hot seawater beside the surf at Strandhill.
Escaldes-Engordany/Andorra
Caldea
A glass spire of thermal water in the Pyrenees, fed by the hot springs of Escaldes.
Yamanouchi/Japan
Shibu Onsen
A stone-paved onsen village in Nagano with nine public baths and a pilgrim's round.
Tengchong/China
Tengchong Rehai Hot Sea
A volcanic geothermal valley in western Yunnan, with bathing pools among boiling springs.
Ranong/Thailand
Raksawarin Hot Springs
Ranong's public hot springs, whose mineral water is clean enough to drink.
Moree/Australia
Moree Artesian Aquatic Centre
A country New South Wales pool complex fed by naturally hot water from the Great Artesian Basin.
Mataranka/Australia
Mataranka Thermal Pool
A palm-fringed thermal pool in Elsey National Park, fed by a spring that discharges tens of millions of litres a day.
Nadi/Fiji
Sabeto Hot Springs and Mud Pool
Volcanic hot pools and warm mud baths in the Sabeto Valley behind Nadi, Fiji.
Ngāwhā/New Zealand
Ngāwhā Springs
A cluster of distinctive mineral pools in Northland, each with its own character and name.
Taupō/New Zealand
Wairakei Terraces & Thermal Health Spa
Silica terraces and adults-only pools fed by the Wairakei geothermal field near Taupō.
Whitianga/New Zealand
Hot Water Beach
Dig your own thermal pool in the sand at low tide on the Coromandel coast.
Hepburn Springs/Australia
Hepburn Bathhouse & Spa
A restored Victorian-era bathhouse in the heart of Australia's densest concentration of mineral springs.
Vals/Switzerland
7132 Therme
Peter Zumthor's quartzite baths, a modern classic of thermal architecture in the Swiss Alps.
Azores/Portugal
Parque Terra Nostra
A vast iron-rich geothermal pool at the heart of an historic botanical garden in Furnas.
Azores/Portugal
Poça da Dona Beija
Five intimate outdoor thermal pools arranged along a warm, iron-rich stream in Furnas.
Azores/Portugal
Caldeira Velha Natural Monument
Forest bathing beneath a warm waterfall, with a hotter geothermal pool near active fumaroles.
Azores/Portugal
Ponta da Ferraria
A rare Atlantic sea pool warmed by volcanic springs at São Miguel’s rugged western edge.
El Hamma/Algeria
Hammam Essalihine
Ancient Roman thermal pools fed by a 70°C mineral spring in Algeria’s Aurès Mountains.
Wiesbaden/Germany
Kaiser-Friedrich-Therme
An Art Nouveau bathhouse in Wiesbaden built over Roman-era foundations and fed by the town's scalding Kochbrunnen springs.
Xi'an/China
Huaqing Palace Hot Springs
The imperial bathing pools of Tang China at the foot of Mount Li, near Xi'an.
Ranau/Malaysia
Poring Hot Springs
Sulphurous spring water in open-air tubs at the foot of Mount Kinabalu.
Mosonmagyaróvár/Hungary
Flexum Thermal Bath Mosonmagyaróvár
A modest western-Hungarian thermal complex fed by a deep alkaline hydrogen-carbonate well.
Fingal/Australia
Peninsula Hot Springs
Australia's best-known geothermal bathhouse, where deep bore water fills terraced pools above the Mornington Peninsula.