Potala Palace in Tibet
The Sumela monastery in Turkey's black sea province of Trabzon
Mount Thor in Canada, featuring Earth's greatest vertical drop of 1,200 m (4,100 ft), with the cliff overhanging at an average angle of 105 degrees (15 degrees from vertical)
You'll get tired of winning.
Surprisingly those two aren't the ones that invaded Assyria.
Those aren't mutually exclusive.
"Not if I cast shield"
-My level 20 warforged armour dipped wizard in a game where the DM was quite generous with magic items
The only way to write a perfect metaphor is to not write a metaphor.
The flameboyants.
Straight to the soul blender.
Sounds like a server problem. There have been a few of those.
IMO the way to avoid this (as well as making it less cliched) is rather than having the likes of Chinaland, Vikingland and Egyptland, to instead blend disparate civilisations together into something that isn't just copy of a single real culture.
I'm not sure what this has to do with RPG memes.
That Venn diagram is a circle.