Where to bathe: The Caracalla Spa is a world-class bathhouse with hot- and cold-water grottoes, a brine-inhalation room, and aromatic steam baths. This article appeared in the November 2022 issue ...

Germany's Therapeutic Mud Baths Have Healing Qualities At first glance, it is difficult to believe anyone would willingly get into a mud bath. But thousands of Germans bathe in them every year to ...

It’s not your average spa therapy. At dawn, in the Czech town of Karlovy Vary, I’m standing beside a 12 metre-high jet of hot spring water, inhaling lungfuls of the warm mist it gives off.