The Best Bathhouses in the United States

Hammam

Hürrem Hammam in North Miami is the highest placed of the five. It is a Turkish hammam and day spa with saunas, a steam room, a salt room and cold plunges. Guests come for the kese scrub and foam wash on heated marble slabs. Robes, towels and slippers are provided, and a treatment does not include the day pass.

Jjimjilbang

King Spa & Sauna in Palisades Park and Island Spa & Sauna in Edison are Korean jjimjilbang. The bath areas are separate for men and women, and bathing there is nude. The sauna rooms are shared, and guests wear loungewear the house provides. King Spa spreads over several floors and has an ice room and mud saunas. Island Spa has charcoal, salt and ice igloos around a shared lounge. Its weekends are packed, with waiting lists of several hours.

AIRE Ancient Baths

AIRE Ancient Baths is on the list in Chicago and in New York. Both are candlelit bathhouses with hot, warm and cold pools, a saltwater flotation bath and a steam room. Chicago has an indoor-outdoor pool with a waterfall. The New York house is underground in Tribeca, with a pool under an open skylight, and bath time there is limited and tracked by a wristband. Guests are asked to whisper in both.