When Oaklawn's racing season resumes Friday, parimutuel betting will rejoin casino gambling at the teeming attraction along ...

From onsens in Japan to high-altitude pools in Bolivia, the photographer Greta Rybus shares highlights from her search for thermal waters. Looking out from the simple changing room at a hot springs ...

Long before wellness became an industry watchword, Murrieta Hot Springs was drawing travelers for its naturally heated springs, discovered in the late 19th century and prized for their reputed ...

Is there anything more magical and inviting than a misty, secluded hot spring on a cold winter day? Maybe, but I haven’t ...

If you’re into health, but have never been to a hot spring, you really should add this to your travel bucket wish list. Hot springs are natural pools of geothermally heated water that emerge from the ...

A Cahuilla legend written by an elder in the 1990s tells the tale of the spring’s creation: “The head man, Tu-to-meet, was tired and sick and lame, so he took his who-ya-no-hut [staff of power], which ...

Hot springs have long existed at the intersection of nature and civilisation. For centuries, societies have built rituals, architecture and ...

The mineral-rich soak at Chena Hot Springs, about 60 miles northeast of Fairbanks, has been attracting tourists since the early 1900s. Cavan Images/Getty Images On the frozen Alaska tundra, hot ...