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** Some of the Demon Lords like to do this (since they have godlike power and can reshape layers of the Abyss that they control however they see fit). Lolth, for instance, reshaped one layer known as the Demonweb into a large, twisting maze in which some paths go over some parts of other levels and under others.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' uses this a lot on Rath. It's also used on Phyrexia, both old and new. More recently, the Eldrazi have used this too, creating superstructures from the hedrons designed to keep them in physical form (and thus unable to escape Zendikar).
* ''[[Exalted]]'' has, among other examples, Malfeas, the Demon City. He is both the city at the heart of the hell dimension [[Genius Loci|and the hell dimension itself]], surrounded by his co-conspirators who have taken on various elemental forms. His body is made up of various strata of buildings, statues, streets and monuments of varying utility and
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*** The reason why some people choose to do this is because when characters are near death, Death will come to collect their souls...but he can't cross water (and can't swim). So characters inside this sort of house '''''cannot die'''''.
* The buildings in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' ''look'' normal, but they clearly aren't. Aside from the more mundane issues (Elevators only go up one floor, labyrinthine layouts that no sane office building would have), there are also some weirder things... (A door leading to an office building one visit can lead to a secret laboratory on a later one, sometimes within ''minutes'' of each other.) And don't even get me started about the one mission where an ordinary door in a Casino takes you to ''HELL''.
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'', in accordance with its cartoonish, over the top style, is made of this trope in its map layouts. 2Fort is the most
* ''[[Silent Hill]]'', being a town made of [[Nightmare Fuel]], invokes this trope on purpose when you're wandering in the [[Dark World]].
** Or in the (for lack of a better term) Light World, for that matter. Silent Hill Historical Society, anyone?
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* Giant Objects are played with in ''The Mouse That Jack Built'', a Warner Brothers short featuring [[Animated Adaptation|mouse expies]] of [[The Jack Benny Program|Jack Benny and Mary Livingstone]]. Benny receives a flyer for the "Kit Kat Club", which is actually the family cat with little tables and chairs in its mouth. Benny thinks it is just a gimmick until the mouth starts to close, with them in it...
* In ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]'', the Giant Object burger-shaped restaurant McSpanky's.
* The Western Air Temples in ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' are built upside down on the bottom face of a
* Almost every building in ''[[CatDog]]'' is an example of Giant
* An episode of ''[[Futurama]]'' features Fry and Bender looking for a new apartment. One of the ones they visit and reject is an M. C. Escher painting brought to life, with the various doors and passages acting like [[Scooby-Dooby Doors]].
** Bender trips and falls down the M.C. Escher stairs, then up a different flight of stairs, then across another different flight of stairs...
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== Real Life ==
* The [[wikipedia:Winchester Mansion|Winchester Mystery House]]. You know something is messed up when there are Staircases that lead ''into the ceiling''. There's also [[Over Nine Thousand]]<ref>[[Sincerity Mode|No, seriously.]]</ref> windows. This is more than the Empire State Building. There's also a legion of hallways that criss-cross and go nowhere. Oh, and there are multiple doors with walls behind them, multiple doors that when you open them lead to absolutely ''nowhere'' and there's ''no floor.'' There's just a giant drop. And, to top it all off, there's a stair case that turns 7 times and is 150 feet long, all to just go up ''9 feet''.
** Also, closets. One closet is exactly one inch deep, another closet is much bigger than a closet probably should be.
** If that wasn't bad enough, it's said to be haunted, since Sarah Winchester, widow to gun magnate William Winchester, was told by a spirit medium that she must build a house to appease the ghosts of the people killed by her husband's rifles. She got together a construction crew and did just that, building 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, from 1884 to her death on September 5, 1922. At first, the house, though enormous, was built according to a well-thought-out and extremely extensive set of plans and blueprints. Then the plans ran out, but Sarah Winchester insisted that construction continue...
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** Ironically, the M.C. Escher Museum in the Netherlands is [http://images.google.com/images?q=%22m.c.+escher+museum%22 quite normal looking].
* Appropriately enough, the [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f5/Geisel_library.jpg Ted Geisel Library] at the University of California San Diego, which looks like a cross between something from one of Seuss' books, and the spaceship from ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]''. It sits within a pit lined by jagged mirrors positioned at such an angle as to give the basements natural lighting.
* Toronto (Canada) has the [[wikipedia:Ontario College of Art
* The Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi built some very different but beautiful examples of gothic architecture, getting his inspiration from organic shapes. The best known is the [[wikipedia:Sagrada Familia|Sagrada Familia]], but one has to wonder about the people who lived at [[wikipedia:La Pedrera|La Pedrera]] or [[wikipedia:Casa Batllo|Casa Batll]]?
* The Fine Arts Center at UMass Amherst is supposed to look like a piano from above. From normal perspective, it's just a weird looking building. It says something when one internal classroom is so hard to find that it has to be approached from another part of the building, utilizing both up and down staircases to reach while touring the backstage area of the main theater.
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