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== [[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
* 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".
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== [[Film]] ==
* The ''[[Cube]]''
* ''[[House
* 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.
* 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 ''[[
* 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 Mirror of Her Dreams]]'' gives us Orison, a castle full of [[Bizarrchitecture]].
* Hogwarts, from the ''[[Harry Potter (
* The Tower of the Egg in [[Robert Heinlein]]'s ''[[Glory Road (
* ''[[Gormenghast]]''
** 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.
* ''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 [[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 Palace in ''[[
== [[Mythology]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The level 'Slumberland' in ''[[Glider PRO]]'' is a perfectly ordinary 400-room house.
* Every dungeon in in every ''[[
* 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.
* Black Mesa, from ''[[Half-Life]]''.
* The Enrichment Center in ''[[Portal (
* [[Lampshaded]] in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* The eponymous ''[[
* ''[[
* Castle Heterodyne of ''Girl Genius''
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* The Central Bureaucracy in ''[[
{{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 />
'''Professor Farnsworth:''' Oh, I've been there. Lots of times. *Maniacal Laughter* }}
* ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends
* 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 ''[[
** Even better: each sector of the KND has their own massive treehouse that's likely ''just'' as labyrinthine!
* ''[[
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