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== [[Comics]] ==
== [[Comics]] ==
* 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 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 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]] 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".
* The Rich family mansion in the [[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".
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== [[Film]] ==
== [[Film]] ==
* The ''[[Cube]]''
* The ''[[Cube]]''
* ''[[House On Haunted Hill (Film)|House On Haunted Hill]]''
* ''[[House on Haunted Hill]]''
* Dr. Frankenfurter's castle in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''
* Dr. Frankenfurter's castle in ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''


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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.
* 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 ''[[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 (Franchise)|Star Trek]]'', the Jeffries tube passageways. In one ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation (TV)|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode, the crew heard music coming from where it shouldn't. It was Captain Picard playing an alien flute in a Jeffries tube; he liked the acoustics there.
* In ''[[Star Trek]]'', the Jeffries tube passageways. In one ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' episode, the crew heard music coming from where it shouldn't. It was Captain Picard playing an alien flute in a Jeffries tube; he liked the acoustics there.
* The Centre on ''[[The Pretender]]''
* The Centre on ''[[The Pretender]]''


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* ''The [[House of Leaves]]'' is a {{color|blue| house}} that is [[Clown Car Base|bigger on the inside]] and contains [[Alien Geometries|odd angles]] and possibly other things. When asked to draw it, a kid produced an [[Room Full of Crazy|all-black drawing]].
* ''The [[House of Leaves]]'' is a {{color|blue| house}} that is [[Clown Car Base|bigger on the inside]] and contains [[Alien Geometries|odd angles]] and possibly other things. When asked to draw it, a kid produced an [[Room Full of Crazy|all-black drawing]].
* ''[[The Mirror of Her Dreams]]'' gives us Orison, a castle full of [[Bizarrchitecture]].
* ''[[The Mirror of Her Dreams]]'' gives us Orison, a castle full of [[Bizarrchitecture]].
* Hogwarts, from the ''[[Harry Potter (Literature)|Harry Potter]]'' books.
* Hogwarts, from the ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' books.
* The Tower of the Egg in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (Literature)|Glory Road]]''.
* The Tower of the Egg in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (novel)|Glory Road]]''.
* ''[[Gormenghast]]''
* ''[[Gormenghast]]''
** Also the palace in [[Michael Moorcock]]'s Gloriana (Moorcock being a huge Peake fan).
** Also the palace in [[Michael Moorcock]]'s Gloriana (Moorcock being a huge Peake fan).
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* 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.
* 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.
* ''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.
* Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, in ''[[Charlie and The Chocolate Factory]]''.
* Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, in ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''.
* The [[Ursula K Le Guin]] short story "The Building" from the collection ''Changing Planes'' centres around a race of people who once a year travel an enormous distance to continue work on a gigantic, labyrinthine, never-to-be finished building for no purpose anyone (including the builders themselves) can discern.
* The [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] short story "The Building" from the collection ''Changing Planes'' centres around a race of people who once a year travel an enormous distance to continue work on a gigantic, labyrinthine, never-to-be finished building for no purpose anyone (including the builders themselves) can discern.
* The White Council Headquarters in Edinborough in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''.
* The White Council Headquarters in Edinborough in ''[[The Dresden Files]]''.
* The Palace in ''[[Septimus Heap (Literature)|Septimus Heap]]'' is described as such.
* The Palace in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'' is described as such.


== [[Mythology]] ==
== [[Mythology]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The level 'Slumberland' in ''[[Glider PRO]]'' is a perfectly ordinary 400-room house.
* The level 'Slumberland' in ''[[Glider PRO]]'' is a perfectly ordinary 400-room house.
* Every dungeon in in every ''[[The Legend of Zelda (Franchise)|The Legend of Zelda]]'' game. Its worth mentioning that a decent number of them are ''temples'' which really brings up the issue of where the prayer goes on, and why the faithful have to get by lava, bottomless pits, and several false paths to get to it.
* Every dungeon in in every ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' game. Its worth mentioning that a decent number of them are ''temples'' which really brings up the issue of where the prayer goes on, and why the faithful have to get by lava, bottomless pits, and several false paths to get to it.
* Offices in [[City of Heroes]] go all over the place, with random elevators that service only two floors, small rooms suspended in larger ones that can only be reached by a walkway that in turn can only be reached via a different room, etc.
* Offices in [[City of Heroes]] go all over the place, with random elevators that service only two floors, small rooms suspended in larger ones that can only be reached by a walkway that in turn can only be reached via a different room, etc.
* The Temple of Ix from [[Nox]] is built like a maze filled with traps, monsters and various confusing hallways. This is because it's designed to keep intruders from taking the Weirdling. Dun Mir and Castle Galava also count.
* The Temple of Ix from [[Nox]] is built like a maze filled with traps, monsters and various confusing hallways. This is because it's designed to keep intruders from taking the Weirdling. Dun Mir and Castle Galava also count.
* Black Mesa, from ''[[Half-Life]]''.
* Black Mesa, from ''[[Half-Life]]''.
* The Enrichment Center in ''[[Portal (Video Game)|Portal]]'' and ''[[Portal 2 (Video Game)|Portal 2]]''.
* The Enrichment Center in ''[[Portal (series)|Portal]]'' and ''[[Portal 2]]''.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Tales of Symphonia (Video Game)|Tales of Symphonia]]'' with regard to the second [[La Résistance|Renegade]] base, which Lloyd refers to in a skit as 'big for no reason'.
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' with regard to the second [[La Résistance|Renegade]] base, which Lloyd refers to in a skit as 'big for no reason'.


== [[Web Comics]] ==
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The eponymous ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic)|Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
* The eponymous ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''
* ''[[The Mansion of E (Webcomic)|The Mansion of E]]''
* ''[[The Mansion of E]]''
* Castle Heterodyne of ''Girl Genius''
* Castle Heterodyne of ''Girl Genius''


== [[Western Animation]] ==
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Central Bureaucracy in ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'':
* The Central Bureaucracy in ''[[Futurama]]'':
{{quote| '''Professor Farnsworth:''' You can't just waltz into the Central Bureaucracy. It's a tangled web of red tape and regulations. I've never been, but a friend of mine went completely mad trying to find the washroom there.<br />
{{quote| '''Professor Farnsworth:''' You can't just waltz into the Central Bureaucracy. It's a tangled web of red tape and regulations. I've never been, but a friend of mine went completely mad trying to find the washroom there.<br />
'''Leela:''' Then we'll need a guide, someone who's been there before.<br />
'''Leela:''' Then we'll need a guide, someone who's been there before.<br />
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Oh, I've been there. Lots of times. *Maniacal Laughter* }}
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Oh, I've been there. Lots of times. *Maniacal Laughter* }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends (Animation)|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''; Madame Foster apparently once got lost in its halls for weeks.
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Fosters Home for Imaginary Friends]]''; Madame Foster apparently once got lost in its halls for weeks.
* 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.
* 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 (Animation)|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.
* 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!
** Even better: each sector of the KND has their own massive treehouse that's likely ''just'' as labyrinthine!
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|Phineas and Ferb]]'' build one, of course.
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' build one, of course.


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