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Anyone here ever heard of Dwarf Fortress? It's very much a niche game, but surpasses pretty much anything out there when we are talking about the details of the world.

Point: Whenever you start a new game, the program generates a whole new world - continents, mountains, rivers, forests, raw materials in the ground, the history of the various species/people, legendary beings (may all become important during the game, after all)... really a great, if not the greatest example of what procedural generation can do.

It's been confirmed that it uses fractals for the world generation. And if you read this description of an artifact, you'll understand. (If you don't already.)

It's even in the Museum of Modern Art now. Yes, a video game.

As a mostly off-topic comment... if you liked Dwarf Fortress but could not make permanent peace with its acquired-taste control scheme; check out RimWorld, a somewhat simpler but highly moddable and widely modded colony management game:

http://rimworldgame.com/

More on topic: As far as amazing landscape (and more) generation, I think Ultima Ratio Regum may be even more impressive, being a game where environment generation begins with the creation of the solar system and its planets and moons, then moves on to continents, terrain, only to eventually end with nations, religions, and (if I recall correctly) significant NPCs.

http://www.ultimaratioregum.co.uk/game/info/

Fractals and procedural generation... it's so fascinating and makes games so much better