Széchenyi Thermal Bath, Budapest

Bathers fill the outdoor thermal pools at Széchenyi, framed by the yellow neo-Baroque wings of the complex that opened in Budapest's City Park in 1913. Its water comes from deep wells at more than 70°C (158°F) and is cooled before it reaches the pools. Steam rising off the water on a winter evening, with chess games played on boards at the pool edge, is the classic Budapest bathing scene.