You can travel very high to see the history of Karlovy Vary. For example, to the Ötztal Alps in South Tyrol, where the Karlovy Vary Chalet used to stand. It was built by the Carlsbad mountaineers in 1883 to provide shelter for themselves and other mountaineers during their mountain hikes. The opening of the Karlovy Vary Hut was reported in detail in the Austrian Tourist Newspaper (Österreichische Touristenzeitung):
"On the afternoon of 3 September 1883, the Karlsbader Hütte was inaugurated in the Matscherthal valley at the southern foot of the Weisskugel. The weather on this day was glorious and the excellent location of this new hut, which was built at an altitude of 2,740 metres above sea level in the immediate vicinity of the glacier, was on full display. (...) About 60 people attended the opening ceremony. The equipment of the hut is exemplary and is a pride of the Karlovy Vary branch of the Prague section of the Alpine Association."
The later fate of the cottage was complicated. After the First World War it was expropriated by the Italian state and handed over to the Italian Alpine Club. After 1945 the chalet unfortunately burnt to the ground. It was not until 1988 that a new hut, called Oberetteshütte, was opened on the site of the ruins and is still in use by mountain hikers today.
Another hut called Karlsbader Hütte is located in Austria in the Lienz Dolomites, but that's another story...
Imperial Spa, Collection of Stanislav Burachovich.