The Gellért Baths in Budapest, Hungary can boast the longest operating wave pool in the world. Built in 1927, the pool still lures swimmers

The first known wave pool in the United States was found next to the chilly Pacific waters on the coast of Oregon: The Bayocean Natatorium,

In 2018 Australia's URBNSURF compiled some clips highlighting a history of wave pools in 20th-century film and video.

The first known in-ground pool with waves was opened in June of 1912 in Radebeul, Germany and called the "Bilzbad."

Surf's up in 1929 Munich as shown in this British Pathé newsreel of the city's new indoor wave pool.

Starnberg, a Bavarian lakeside resort popular with summertime visitors from Munich boasts the first twentieth-century wave pool. It was bui

Where did Ludwig II of Bavaria electrify a lake to create breaking waves: the Venus Grotto or Lake Stramberg.

Built on the eastern tip of Lohmühleninsel, Berlin in 1847 it was the first steam-powered artificial wave pool. It closed in 1920.