The steam rising from the outdoor pool at the Felsland Badeparadies in Dahn, Germany, sure looked enticing on a recent January day with the air temperature hovering around freezing. My daughter ...

Walk in wearing swim trunks and you’ll get glares and ... Image Therme Erding, about an hour northeast of Munich, Germany, has 24 saunas and a large indoor-outdoor pool.Credit ...

There's a push by Berlin swimmers to get back into the water a century after the city banned swimming in the Spree River ...

Under heat stress (and this happens when cold water swimming too), heat shock ... Estonian whisking to Aufguss ceremonies from Germany to grief saunas in Hackney, we are being experimental ...

The same goes for many of the inviting seaside winter swimming-and-sauna clubs just outside the city — they are members-only too. The city of Copenhagen recently approved two new floating saunas ...

Felix Kühn manages the sauna at a "textile-free" spa in Berlin, Germany. This means guests must be naked to access its pool and sauna. "It's a very physical and exhausting job, but I have so much ...