8 of the World’s Most Daring Swimming Pools

A dip in the water is always invigorating, and perhaps never more so than at these eight spectacular pools, which are set in daring locations around the world. Singapore ’s Marina Bay Sands hotel invites guests, for example, to “swim on top of the world”—at its expansive infinity pool, set 57 stories up. At 650 feet above the ground, it’s the world’s highest swimming pool, and only the bravest are diving in. From Utah’s Homestead Crater, a geothermal spring hidden by a 55-foot-tall natural limestone surround, to the glass-bottomed pool hanging off the edge of the InterContinental Dubai Festival City, these daring pools allow for truly exhilarating swims, no matter how leisurely your backstroke.

A nighttime view of the Singapore skyline from the Marina Bay Sands hotel’s infinity pool.

An aerial shot of the bold Marina Bay Sands property in Singapore. The hotel’s three towers are topped with the three-acre Sands SkyPark, which houses its swimming pool.

At Mexico’s Hierve el Agua natural rock formation site, a number of pools—both natural and artificial—sit high above the Oaxaca valley.

A daring glass-bottomed section of the hotel’s 82-foot pool hangs over the building’s edge at the InterContinental Dubai Festival City.

The vast Amalfi Coast view from the infinity pool at Ravello, Italy’s Belmond Hotel Caruso.

The Homestead Resort in Midway, Utah, is home to Homestead Crater, a deep geothermal spring—the only warm scuba-diving site in the continental U.S.

A glass-bottomed portion of the slender rectangular pool at Hotel Indigo Hong Kong hangs off the side of the high-rise, overlooking bustling Wan Chai, an area on the northern shore of Hong Kong.

The swimming pool at the Hanging Gardens of Bali resort is suspended over the lush rainforest.