Rundown Soviet spa resorts remain open for business

Rundown Soviet spas still (kind of) open for business: In the 1920s, the Soviet Union funded mandatory spa retreats for citizens to re-energize “while they contemplated socialist ideals,” National Geographic says in a piece accompany a photo series picturing the abandoned spa complex in the Georgian town of Tskaltubo. Although crumbling, parts of the old bathhouse are now in use by a hotel and resort, which “still offers traditional sanatorium services, including radioactive semi-radon baths and balneotherapy in the form of therapeutic baths.”