The US is where the urban bathhouse format is being rebuilt at scale. Century-old Russian and Korean houses share the cut with the new wave: multi-room venues running Finnish heat, steam, chilled plunges and aufguss schedules on app-booked slots. Sessions run longer than the European barrel norm; plan a half day, not an hour.
In the United States, 38 of the curated saunas fit this cut. See the full the United States country guide for every venue, or keep scrolling for just the urban bathhouses.
Every urban bathhouse in United States
AIRE Ancient Baths — Chicago
$$$Chicago, United States
AIRE's Chicago baths fill a restored 1902 factory in River West, lit by candles. The circuit moves between warm, hot and cold pools, a salt float bath, a jet bath, an aromatherapy steam room and a dry sauna. The Palestra, a warm outdoor pool, is reached by swimming out through a waterfall.
Aloha Sauna & Spa
$$Honolulu, United States
Aloha Sauna & Spa is a Korean-style bathhouse on Kalauokalani Way in Honolulu. An entry fee covers its saunas, hot tub and cold plunge pool. Korean body scrubs and massages are booked separately, and the scrub packages include entry.
Archimedes Banya
$$$San Francisco, United States
A three-storey Russian-led banya on the Bayview waterfront, fusing Russian parilka, Turkish hammam, German sauna and Roman bathing into one circuit. Sessions revolve around heat-cold-rest cycles with venik platza treatments. A rooftop deck over the bay, a restaurant and a bar make it as much a social hangout as a wellness facility.
Banya 5
$$Seattle, United States
A compact urban banya in South Lake Union, running since 2004, blending Russian, Turkish, Finnish and Japanese bathing in one facility. The core circuit is a parilka, eucalyptus steam room, ice bath, saltwater pool and hot tub. Platza treatments, a nap room and massage sit alongside.
Bathhouse — Atlantic Ave
$$Brooklyn, United States
The third Bathhouse location, on Atlantic Ave in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn. Same thermal-circuit format as the Williamsburg flagship: hot pools, cold plunges, sauna, steam rooms, hammam and daily aufguss, sized for a neighbourhood crowd. Industrial Brooklyn aesthetic carries through.
Bathhouse — Flatiron
$$New York, United States
The Manhattan sibling of Bathhouse Williamsburg, a smaller-format outpost on West 22nd Street in the Flatiron district. Same Bathhouse menu of hot pools, cold plunges, sauna, steam rooms, hammam and daily aufguss, scaled to a tighter footprint. Same moody industrial design language as the flagship.
Bathhouse — Williamsburg
$$Brooklyn, United States
The original 2019 Bathhouse, and the biggest of the three NYC locations. Eight thermal pools, one of the largest stadium-seating saunas in the city, steam rooms, a hammam and a restaurant. Daily aufguss rituals, low-lit design, industrial Williamsburg aesthetic.
Bathhouse Spa
$$$Las Vegas, United States
BATHHOUSE sits inside the Mandalay Bay complex on the Strip, in the hotel that swapped the Delano name for W Las Vegas in late 2024. The circuit runs a redwood sauna, a eucalyptus steam room, hot and cold whirlpools and a cold plunge room. A day pass buys the circuit without a treatment, hotel guest or not.
Beverly Wellness Hot Springs
$$$Los Angeles, United States
Formerly Beverly Hot Springs, this Korean bathhouse on North Oxford Avenue sits over a natural artesian well. Its warm mineral water fills a stone grotto pool, beside a cold plunge, a eucalyptus steam room and a dry sauna. Women and men bathe in separate sections where nudity is optional, and Korean body scrubs are booked on top.
Brooklyn Banya
$$$Brooklyn, United States
A Russian bathhouse on Coney Island Avenue in Kensington, open every day from late morning until eleven at night. Steam rooms, cold plunge pools and platza treatments with oak leaves, and walk-ins are taken without an appointment. Swimwear is required, and the whole place can be taken over for a group.
Brooklyn Bathhouse
$$$Brooklyn, United States
A bathhouse on Flatbush Avenue with three saunas, among them a Finnish dry room and a temperate wet room, plus a steam room and hot, neutral and cold plunge pools. A day pass buys four hours with towels, robe and sandals, and there is a cafe and bar on site. Massages and facials are booked separately.
Chicago Bath House
$$Chicago, United States
A 1906 Russian banya in Wicker Park, anchored by the Red Square hot room. Stones in the granite chamber are heated overnight, then doused for the next day's steam. A Finnish sauna, eucalyptus steam, plunge pool, restaurant and bar and platza treatments round it out.
Crystal Spa
$$Los Angeles, United States
Crystal Spa is a Korean spa on West 6th Street in Koreatown, entered on a day pass. Its heated rooms are lined in Himalayan salt, charcoal and Korean red mud, beside a dry sauna and a cool-down room. There are heated baths and a cold plunge too, and the co-ed jjimjilbang has mats and a food bar.
Everett House
$Portland, United States
A clothing-optional community healing centre spread across two craftsman houses in Portland's Kerns neighbourhood. Two saunas, a steam room, a salt hot tub, two clawfoot cold plunge tubs, an outdoor shower and a fire patio. Co-ed most of the week, with women-only and LGBTQ-only sessions.
Formation Sauna and Wellness
$$$Philadelphia, United States
A traditional sauna on Brown Street, booked privately for one to four people at a time. Ninety-minute slots include a cold shower and cold plunge, a private toilet and shower, and a locker with towels and robes, with a lounge shared with at most one other group. Massage and monthly breathwork evenings run alongside.
Holiday Salon and Bathhouse
$$Nashville, United States
A Finnish-inspired bathhouse in a century-old East Nashville factory, hired by the hour for one to ten people: a Himalayan salt sauna, a eucalyptus steam room, a 104F saltwater soaking pool and a cold plunge shower. A smaller room pairs a far-infrared sauna with a whirlpool tub. A hair salon and treatment rooms share the building.
Hothouse Spa & Sauna
$$Seattle, United States
A small Capitol Hill bathhouse taken privately, one group at a time: a cedar sauna, a herbal steam room, a tiled hot tub, a cold plunge shower and a relaxation area. Bookings run from 90 minutes to three hours and cover up to four people, with room for eight on longer slots. Gender inclusive, and open seven days a week.
Hürrem Hammam Wellness & Spa
$$$North Miami Beach, United States
A Turkish hammam on Biscayne Boulevard in North Miami, built around marble bathing halls with a central gobek tasi. A day pass covers two saunas, a steam room, a salt room, an ice igloo, cold plunges and a hydromassage pool. Bathing is co-ed in swimwear, and a Turkish restaurant sits on site.
Jeju Sauna
$$Duluth, United States
A large Korean spa on Gwinnett Place Drive, open around the clock. Gender-separated bathing halls sit alongside heated stone and salt rooms, steam rooms and a jade-lined pool, with a shared lounge where guests wear the house uniform. Admission is walk-in with no appointment, and scrubs and massages are booked on site.
Kabuki Springs & Spa
$$San Francisco, United States
A 50-year-old Japanese-style bathhouse in Japantown, built around a sento-inspired ritual. Seated-shower wash, 104°F hot bath, 55°F cold plunge, cedar-lined dry sauna at 140°F, then a 120°F herbal steam room. Bathing is gender-segregated most of the week, with co-ed swimsuit days.
Knot Springs
$$Portland, United States
A members-led wellness club on the third floor of the Eastside Exchange building in Portland. Hot pools, sauna, steam room and cold plunge look out over the Willamette and downtown. Day passes are bookable for non-members, alongside the gym and treatment menu.
Loyly — Northeast
$$Portland, United States
A Portland Finnish sauna and bodywork studio on NE MLK Boulevard, pairing a dry sauna with a steam room. The signature visit is a self-guided two-hour public sauna. Treatment add-ons like a foot soak, salt scrub or face mask bundle into the sauna package.
Loyly — Southeast
$$Portland, United States
A Finnish sauna in inner southeast Portland, booked as a two-hour visit. The visit takes in the sauna, showers, lockers and a lounge, with a towel and robe provided. Massage, facials and foot treatments run alongside it, and monthly ritual days add aufguss, whisking and guided aromatherapy.
New York Spa & Sauna
$$New York, United States
A Korean day spa in Flushing, open every day of the year from early morning to late. The bathing floor downstairs is gender-separated and nude, with hot tubs, a cold tub, a steam room and dry saunas. Upstairs is co-ed in the house uniform, with four more dry saunas, an ice room, heated floors and a Korean kitchen.
Sauna House — Charlotte
$$Charlotte, United States
Set inside a 1934 industrial building in Charlotte's historic FreeMoreWest district, with exposed brick, bow-truss ceilings, and factory-style windows. Co-ed, phone-free, swimsuit-required Nordic-style bathhouse built around a two-hour Thermal Cycle of Finnish sauna, cold plunge, and rest on heated benches. Includes a silent salt room and a small massage menu.
Sauna House — Durham
$$Durham, United States
A 6,900 sq ft converted Geer Street warehouse in downtown Durham, stripped to its glass and rebuilt as the brand's "Version 2". Same contrast-bathing ritual as the rest of the group: Finnish sauna, cold plunge, heated metal lounge sofas, phone-free, with massage rooms attached. Walkable to the Geer Street bar and restaurant strip.
Sauna House — Greenville
$$Greenville, United States
Occupies the historic Borden Ice Cream Company building on the edge of Unity Park, with 16-inch-thick insulated walls and 9-foot windows. Adds a private one-hour infrared cabin and a silent salt room on top of the standard Finnish sauna, in-ground cold plunge, and heated bench loop. Two-hour Thermal Cycle, swimwear required, phones in lockers.
Sauna House — Knoxville
$$Knoxville, United States
Housed in a historic bow-truss laundry building in Old North Knoxville on Jennings Ave, with exposed brick and tall industrial windows. Saunas run around 185°F with steam-on-rocks, paired with 45-50°F cold plunges and heated outdoor furniture for the in-between rounds. Massage menu attached.
Sauna House — Raleigh
$$Raleigh, United States
A single-floor, ADA-accessible bathhouse off Dupont Circle in southwest Raleigh, next to the Platform Apartments. It is the Sauna House site with both a cold plunge and a warm pool, alongside the Finnish sauna and heated lounge benches. Tea, kombucha and electrolytes only: no food, no phones, no alcohol.
Schvitz Health Club
$$Detroit, United States
The Schvitz has been a bathhouse on Oakland Avenue in Detroit since 1930, and it is the last historic one left in the city. Admission covers both saunas, the pool, a locker and towels. Some sessions are for all genders in swimsuits, and others are men-only or women-only.
Shangri-La Bath & Sauna
$$Tampa, United States
A Korean bathhouse on East Hillsborough Avenue in Tampa, spread over 13,000 square feet. A day fee covers the sauna and steam rooms, hot tubs and cold tubs, with body scrubs and massages charged on top. There is a restaurant, karaoke and a small salon on site.
Spa Castle
$$$Queens, United States
Four-story, four-season Korean jjimjilbang in College Point with themed sauna chambers (Himalayan salt, gold, jade, halotherapy, color therapy, dry, plus steam) and an ice room. Indoor and outdoor heated hydrotherapy pools, jacuzzis, infrared lounge, restaurant and pool bar, and a Kids Castle that makes it explicitly family-oriented. Walk-in admission.
Spa Haven Suites
$$Henderson, United States
A wellness studio in Henderson with private infrared sauna rooms and a Himalayan salt room, both booked by appointment. Sessions run 45 minutes and can be bought singly, in packs or on a monthly membership. Independent therapists rent treatment suites in the same building.
Tacoma Banya
$$Tacoma, United States
Tacoma Banya is a traditional banya in Tacoma with a wet sauna, a steam room, a hot tub and a tepid pool. Bathers use birch branches in the sauna. A billiard room, a tea corner and a private VIP room with its own sauna sit alongside.
The Source Sauna Studio and Day Spa
$Kalispell, United States
A sauna studio and day spa in downtown Kalispell with five saunas. The communal Finnish room seats ten under a starlit ceiling, and private suites come in aspen, cedar and a hybrid infrared. A cold plunge and waterfall buckets sit beside them, with massage on the menu too.
Washington Baths
$$Portland, United States
A public bathhouse on Washington Avenue with gender-separate sauna rooms heated by a masonry stove you can ladle water onto. An enclosed courtyard holds a hot pool and a cold one. Entry is walk-in only, with a lounge and library at the back and a small cafe at the front.
Wi Spa
$$Los Angeles, United States
Wi Spa is a Korean spa on Wilshire Boulevard at Rampart, where Koreatown meets Westlake. Its men's and women's floors have hot and cold baths and dry and steam saunas, and bathing there is nude. In the co-ed jjimjilbang, guests in house shirts and shorts move between the bulgama, salt, clay, jade and ice rooms.
World Spa
$$$Brooklyn, United States
A 50,000 sq ft Brooklyn megabath that bills itself as the largest banya in the US. The setup spans Eastern European banyas, Finnish saunas, Moroccan and Turkish hammams, a Himalayan salt room, a snow room and an onsen circuit. You move between rituals, then collapse on a chaise by the fireplace lounge.