Each state's varying and characteristic landscape makes the USA the ninth most beautiful country in the world, according to Rough Guides readers.

Boasting peaks to canyons, metropoles to wastelands, there are few places across the vast nation that aren't worth getting the camera out for — especially national parks and landmarks such as the Grand Canyon and Yosemite, which are "protected for posterity with the world's best national park system" according to one Rough Guide reader.