Alaska's Denali National Park (pictured) is part of a system of 400-plus areas of buttes, badlands, volcanoes, glaciers, falls, fjords, geysers and gift shops.
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2. Eating —
Make all the fat jokes you want -- seriously, they're hilarious -- but no other nation offers the portions and varieties of culinary experimentation found in the U.S. Exhibit A: deep-fried butter.
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3. Sports —
Most countries have a national sport, the U.S. has four. OK, three; you can have hockey, Canada.
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4. Derbies —
With all due respect to the English city, the U.S. is the home of the derby in all its forms, be it racing, smashing or bashing.
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5. Friendly greetings —
"Ahoy!" "Aloha!" "Hey!" "Hola!" "Howdy!" "Hiya!" "Ho there!" "Well, look who it is!" "What's happenin'?!" "'Sup!" "Yo!" "Hello!" The variety and vibrancy of the American greeting is unrivaled, upholding a threshold of friendliness Americans demand, Europeans find onerous and others find perplexing.
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6. Beer —
Whether it's Portland, Oregon's Hopworks, Grand Rapids, Michigan's Founders, Asheville, North Carolina's Wicked Weed or these guys' pong tourney, no country has more fun with beer than the U.S.
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7. Canyons —
Utah's Bryce Canyon (pictured) is the closest you can get to another planet without tickets on Virgin Galactic. Then there's Black Canyon of the Gunnison (Colorado), Palo Duro Canyon (Texas), Canyon de Chelly (Arizona), Sequioa and Kings Canyon (California), Waimea Canyon (Hawaii) and hundreds more to round out a list so deep and wide that it makes the U.S. the hands-down winner in this category even without mentioning the Grandest one of them all.
8. Moving pictures —
From internationally beloved TV shows like Breaking Bad to movies like Avatar and anything the Coen brothers do to viral videos like Harlem Shake and the Kardashian sex tape, America is the world's dramatic chipmunk.
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9. Road trips —
With roadside oddities like the world's largest ball of paint in Indiana, along with infamous rest areas dotting a majestic roadscape at uniform intervals, you're never far from the next adventure. And if you don't know why this photo accompanies a bit on road trips, you've never been on a proper one.
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10. Diversity —
The U.S. is a microcosm of nearly every world culture, climate, landscape and category of wildlife. And whatever doesn't occur naturally gets recreated at Disney.
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11. Giving you more bang for your buck —
Did we say 10 things? Have one more. No one over-delivers, or does more with more, like this bunch.
