If you are looking for a way to relax in Chicago, then head to the Windy City's only ancient Roman bathhouse for unmatched rejuvenation within historic walls.

Researchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it ...

Two hundred and 50 years ago, Bath was the Hollywood of Britain. Today, this former trendsetter of Georgian England invites you to take a 90-minute train ride from London west and sample its ...

The origin of sound baths goes back to ancient civilizations in Egypt, Greece and Tibet, but a local practitioner says that the sessions can help people now to release anxiety and stress.

Dragi Dimitrijevski had dreamed of retrieving his church's crucifix from the water the night before he plunged into the Newcastle Ocean Baths on Sunday, carrying on a decades-long local tradition.

The cold room of the thermal baths features a peristyle—a porticoed courtyard measuring 10 by 10 meters—with a large central pool and frescoes depicting athletes. The bath complex includes all ...

I think a trip to the local baths and a Greggs would have felt like more of a treat. And been a damn sight cheaper.

The complex had a capacity of about 30 people and boasted baths of varying temperatures, including a caldarium full of hot water, a tepidarium for tepid water and a frigidarium for a bracing cold dip.

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. The baths were unearthed in the so-called Regio IX, a large central area of Pompeii still unexplored where ...

Hot, warm and cold baths in a recently uncovered villa offer a new glimpse of life in the city before it was smothered by tons of volcanic fragments. By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome The ...