Go to: Spa at Mandarin Oriental New York One of only two spas to receive a five-star rating in the Mobil Travel Guide, the Spa at Mandarin Oriental offers treatments inspired by Chinese, European, Thai and Balinese philosophies. Visitors can book “time rituals,” or personalized blocks of time, to restore the body’s natural state of equilibrium. “Yes, your body will be swathed in goop, but you’ll leave with a glow to rival J.Lo’s,” Harper’s Bazaar magazine observed in 2005. Click through the gallery to see other spas around the globe that create an art form out of relaxation.