The World’s Nine Most Beautiful Pools

Published March 3, 2013
Updated August 21, 2025

The Tangga House, Singapore

Tangga House Singapore

Built to compliment the modern architecture of the home by the world renown contemporist Guz Architects, this clear and beautiful pool creates the illusions of a wall of water, generating a silhouette that just begs to be swum in.

Tangga House Pool

Tangga House Picture

The World’s Most Beautiful Pools: Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club

Bondi Icebergs Pool

Source: 365 Kent

A dip in this seaside saltwater pool means saying goodbye to the contained, highly-chlorinated waters of normal pools and introducing the natural elements to your daily swim. Why? At the Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club, the waves of the Pacific Ocean crash over the wall and into the water.

Beautiful Pools

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Bondi Icebergs Swimming Club

The Infinity Pool

Beautiful Pools Caruso 1

Stretching out across the Italian skyline, the Hotel Caruso’s pool offers swimmers spectacular views over the Sorrento Peninsular from its cliff top location in the scenic Amalfi Coast.

Beautiful Pools Caruso 2

Source: Topuru

The Hanging Pools Of Bali

Floating high above the treetops of Bali, the pools of the Ubud Hanging Gardens rest among the smoky volcanoes and rice terraces at the very heart of this beautiful province.

Beautiful Pools

La Piscine Josephine Baker, Paris

Beautiful Pools Josephine Baker

Floating on the Seine River is the beautiful glass-walled pool, La Piscine Josephine Baker. Built on a modular barge and a permanent fixture on the riverbank, the pool features a retractable roof that opens to the summer sky and was named for French dancer, singer and actress Josephine Baker, the first African-American female to star in a major motion picture.

Josephine Baker Hotel

Source: Wikipedia

Josephine Baker Pool

Source: Bord a Bord

The Golden Nugget, Las Vegas

There are very few hotels where heading to the pool means taking a dip next to a 200,000 gallon shark tank. That is, of course, unless you’re in Las Vegas.

But if sandtiger and Pacific blacktip sharks don’t quite catch your attention, you can spend your time by the waterfalls, in a private pool cabana with plasma TVs and pool fridges or maybe on the three-story water slide.

Beautiful Pools Golden Nugget 2

Golden Nugget

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fk4bExZUDPs

The Pool Of Illusions

Leandro Erlich Pools Illusion

Source: Ethan Ham

You may not be able to swim in this incredible illusion, but you can certainly marvel at it. Created by Argentine installation artist Leandro Erlich and housed in Japan, what appears to be a standard pool is really a 10-centimeter layer of water over transparent glass covering an empty room below. In other words, doing cannon balls here is ill-advised.

Down In The Depths

The World's Nine Most Beautiful Pools Nemo Belgium

Source: Exomapia

Swimming does not always have to be about floating in peaceful tranquility. Located in Belgium, Nemo 33 is the world’s deepest indoor swimming pool, consisting of underwater caves, flat platforms at varying depths and a circular pit that descends 33 meters. Kept at a toasty 86 degrees Fahrenheit, it’s the perfect place for anyone taken by the depths of the sea but fearful of the creatures that come along with it.

Most Beautiful Pools Belgium

Source: Securioso

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs79qz286QE

Swimming On The Tenth Floor In Texas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mcr30oijjMU

Hanging eight feet over the edge of the Hotel Joule in Texas, this cantilevered pool looks equal equal parts spectacular and precarious and lets swimmers relax in a rooftop breeze on a hot summer days.


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