While spas in North America tend to focus on weight loss and relaxation, European spas have long purported to promote good health and cure ailments. That's not to say, however, that a visitor can ...

The German spa town of Bad Kissingen offers 19th-century-style treatments for chronic health complaints and a window into the life of Otto von Bismarck.

The Russian novelist, a compulsive gambler, lost everything in the opulent spa and gambling towns of Baden-Baden, Bad Homburg and Wiesbaden. An admirer of his books follows his footsteps.

The Hilton Head spa has a 72-inch tub where clients can have a bath and soak in warm water with moor added. The warm water is particularly good to relieve chronic pain, Durrant said.