In the 12th century, the practice of visiting salt caves for therapeutic reasons, or speleotherapy, was common in Eastern Europe. In the 1800s, salt miners in Poland found a more modern version of ...

Such salt caves exist all over the world - in Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Germany and Switzerland - and are widely used by asthma patients as an alternative treatment.

Serenity in the Mountains' Himalayan salt cave was built by hand using Himalayan rock salt boulders, bricks, rocks and sand shipped from Poland to the mountains of North Georgia.

“The salt cave has 10,000 pounds of salt, imported from Poland,” said Pam (lead image, red shirt). “It mimics the microclimate of the salt mines in Poland.

Such salt caves exist all over the world - in Ukraine, Hungary, Poland, Turkey, Germany and Switzerland - and are widely used by asthma patients as an alternative treatment.