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* The Infinity Avengers Mansion from ''[[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]'', created by Hank Pym during Dan Slott's ongoing run. The Mansion exists in a quantum state in between dimensions, and it is, well... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Infinite.]]
* The Keyhouse Mansion from ''[[Locke and Key|Locke & Key]]''. The Magical keys found inside it are the main theme of the series, and all of the Keyhouse's secret have not been revealed yet.
* The Rich family mansion in the [[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]] comic books is large enough that its roof once served as an emergency runway for an airplane! The Rich Manor map has 2/3 of it labelled simply as "unexplored sections of the mansion".
== [[Film]] ==
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* The TARDIS from ''[[Doctor Who]]''. In one episode, the Doctor, looking for a remote room, leaves thread behind him so he can find his way back.
* In ''[[Battlestar Galactica Reimagined]]'', there is a forgotten astrogation room on board the Galactica that was abandoned when the design for the Galactica's navigation system was changed.
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the Jeffries tube passageways. In one ''[[Star Trek: The
* The Centre on ''[[The Pretender]]''
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* ''[[The Mirror of Her Dreams]]'' gives us Orison, a castle full of [[Bizarrchitecture]].
* Hogwarts, from the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books.
* The Tower of the Egg in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]''.
* ''[[Gormenghast]]''
** Also the palace in [[Michael Moorcock]]'s Gloriana (Moorcock being a huge Peake fan).
* The Labyrinth in [[Robert Silverberg]]'s [[Literature/Majipoor|Majipoor]] series. Home of the Pontifex, who is always the last Coronal to serve on Castle Mount. This strange city is in a desert region and is built almost entirely below ground. Many layers beneath the ground, the bureaucracy that actually runs Majipoor is busy with their statistical analyses and other "official" paperwork. The Pontifex himself, technically the top executive of the planet, is more or less stuck here.
* The hospital in [[Connie Willis]]' Passage is like this, complete with bizarrely-connected buildings and elevators leading to many instances of "you can't get there from here", work crews randomly blocking passages, forgotten stairwells where the paint dried long ago and a never-open cafeteria. This is pretty relevant in a book where everybody keeps missing each other, hiding from each other and being chronically late, so much so that when at the end the doctor arrives in time to save the [[Littlest Cancer Patient]] it's a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
* Unseen University from the [[Discworld]], though technically a complex rather than a building. It is noted that due to the high magic levels in the University and low amounts of reality in the Discworld 'verse, UU is constantly adding and subtracting rooms on a daily basis. A map of the place looks like a chrysanthemum in the process of exploding, and is only anywhere close to helpful for maybe a week at best.
** This especially applies to the library, as large numbers of books disort time and space around them. In one book it is claimed that every used book store in existence belongs to this trope, and that their owners have actually gotten lost from other dimensions where erratic opening hours are a respected form of business.
* There are several examples in [[Jorge Luis Borges]]'s works, most notably the City of Immortals (''The Immortal''), which is a whole city built like this.
* ''The [[Book of the New Sun]]'' has the House Absolute - the home of the Autarch. Not only is the House so vast and complex that its extents are unknown, but there is a secret "Second House" coextensive with the first. The Citadel of Nessus is also vast and labyrinthine, but arguably more a complex than a single building.
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== [[Mythology]] ==
* The [[Ur Example]] is the palace of King Minos, in Knossos. It was the basis for the myth of the Labyrinth built by Daedalus to imprison the Minotaur.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* The Pentagon.
* Allegedly: the pyramids. In actuality most of their volume is cut stone / cement, but it is certainly plausible that undiscovered passageways exist.
** Several have been discovered by modern technology, but left unopened. Some most likely played part in the construction process, while others may have religious significance, or burial chambers. They are largely unconnected to each other, and isolated from the main tunnels by tons of stone, making potential excavation tricky business.
* The Gunkanjima Island in Japan. It tops on a coal mine; the area of the island is 15 acres, and its built-up area is 16 acres - meaning that ''the whole island is one continuous humongous maze of buildings'' - extending at some places over the sea.
* The [http://www.cracked.com/article/181_the-6-creepiest-places-earth/ Winchester Mystery House] (scroll down to #4). A house in San Jose, with 160 rooms, built like a maze to confuse ghosts - with stairways disappearing into the ceiling, doors opening into walls, and lots of 13's strewn about the place.
* The British houses of parliament have more corridors in meters than the White House has floor space in square meters.
* The British Prime Minister's office at Number 10, Downing Street also applies to this trope, since the apparently relatively modest-sized upper-class house has been expanded to all the neighbouring buildings while retaining their original fronts intact.
* According to [[Top Gear|Jeremy Clarkson]], the BBC Television building is one of these.
* Any [[Steel Mill]]. The MMK integrated mill in Magnitogorsk, Russia, is a riverside of ''eleven kilometres'' of continuous buildings, furnaces, workshops, corridors and halls.
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* Al Amarja's "D'Aubainne International Airport" terminal in ''[[Over the Edge]]''.
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The eponymous ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
* ''[[The Mansion of E]]''
* Castle Heterodyne of ''Girl Genius''
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* The ''Place that sends you Mad'' from ''The 12 Tasks of Asterix'' is set in a Labyrinthine office building. The unhelpful personel only make it worse.
* In ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', the protagonists' massive [[Treehouse of Fun]] towers over the surrounding neighborhood and is full of odd rooms like an aircraft hangar and a "cheese repository." While its absurd size isn't usually a plot point, one episode has the kids trekking through the most of the treehouse to stop a lice infestation, while another establishes that there's a long-abandoned lawless section of it with tribal ginnea pigs.
** Even better: each sector of the KND has their own massive treehouse that's likely ''just'' as labyrinthine!
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' build one, of course.
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