Japanese onsens -- bath houses where patrons relax naked together ... marking its second foray into the world's largest economy after failing to win over North Americans during Japan's 1980s ...

Communal hot springs baths are a blissful gift to stressed ... me by the hand to lead me into the main hot room. The peaceful world of marble and inlaid tile floors has washing stations around the ...

In the 1890s, Buffalo was a thriving manufacturing city, the world’s largest grain port ... Their solution was to build a public bath house—open to all and free of charge—on the Terrace ...

An integral part of daily life in ancient Rome, the baths gave citizens of ... s superiority to the rest of the world. Every day, Romans would finish work around the middle of the afternoon ...