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** In BenCounter's ''HorusHeresy'' novel ''Galaxy In Flames'', Death's Tomb is bigger on the inside than the outside — as well as other repulsive features.

* ''Wiki/SCPFoundation:''' [[http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-033 SCP 033]] is a missing integer. Any surface it's written on will begin to break down.

* ''Echochrome'' is a puzzle game based on the works of M. C. Escher. The geometries are as weird as you might expect.

* ''AlphaFlight'' - Shaman's medicine pouch has its own laws of physics, able to hold far more than its volume, as well as responding to its owner's wishes as to what he wants. Anyone inexperienced in Shaman's magic style who looks into the pouch risks going catatonic.

* In LarryNiven's ''[[KnownSpace Protector]]'' the Brennan Monster amuses himself by creating full scale replicas of some of Escher's art, using things like artificial gravity to make them work.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' ExpandedUniverse speculates that this is the default setting for the interior of a TARDIS, and that the Doctor's TARDIS projects a more easily comprehended interior so as not to [[BrownNote freak out]] the Doctor's human companions. [[GeniusLoci She is just a sweet old thing.]]\\

* ''FanFic/AeonNatumEngel'' and its rewrite ''FanFic/AeonEntelechyEvangelion'' are the crossover fanfics consisting of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', ''CthulhuTech'' and ''VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon'', with the latter adding elements of ''EclipsePhase and ''[[AlastairReynolds RevelationSpace]]'' to the mix, so they have this in form of Heralds/Harbingers who replace the Angels. Mot, the equivalent of Ramiel, cranks this up to eleven.

* In ''TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob'' the alien Nemesites know how to make buildings that are bigger on the inside. [[GeniusDitz Molly]] describes such a building as "all tesseracty and [[DoctorWho Whovian!"]] This becomes a plot point when that building is destroyed, and all of its chunks of debris expand outward and fly ''away'' from each other as they "drop into normal spacetime.'' This saves a character who was trapped inside from being crushed by a normal building collapse.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' episode "The Real You", Finn uses his magically-granted super intelligence to create a fourth-dimensional bubble. It looks like a cube wire-frame constantly inverting itself before it collapses into a black hole.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the evil planet of Derse (and presumably, its good counterpart, Prospit) has inner depths and corridors that twist upon themselves in ways that challenge the rational mind. There is also [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=003568 this sequence]].

* ''SuperMarioBros'' - Warp Pipes ignore any physics beyond RuleOfFun, but the ones in ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory Bowser's Inside Story]]'' ''really'' take the cake. There are multiple, microscopic pipes ''inside'' of Bowser that, without actually going ''through'' Bowser at any point, lead ''outside'' of Bowser, simultaneously increasing the size of those who go through them to macroscopic. Though it's impossible in-game, there is nothing ''in theory'' to prevent Bowser from entering one of these pipes. What would happen if Bowser did use such a pipe? [[DivideByZero Decent people shouldn't think too much about that]].

* Finn creates a fourth dimensional bubble in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. It looks like a cube wireframe constantly inverting itself before it collapses into a black hole.

* ''VideoGame/{{Pac-Man}}'' is a cylinder, since you can only go between left and right.

A staple of CosmicHorrorStory and of MindScrew artworks. [[EldritchAbomination Elder Gods, Old Ones, and other horrors]] tend to bend the laws of physics to suit them. Why make a triangle where the angles add up to 180 degrees, when you can make one where they add up to 200 degrees in a flat space and get some extra room? Even the very ''body'' of a particularly squamous thing may exhibit this, though more often it shows up in architecture as physically-impossible buildings—[[GeniusLoci occasionally sentient themselves]].

Compare with {{Bizarrchitecture}} and SinisterGeometry.

** In Stephen King's short story ''[[FourteenOhEight 1408]]'', the titular room's door is crooked to both the left and the right. Or not at all. Maybe it can move? And it gets worse from there.

** ''MajorasMask'' - The Stone Tower in involves reversing gravity so you can run around in the ceilings of rooms. This is made even more [[MindScrew mind-twisting]] by the fact that the horizontal orientation of the temple is preserved after it is flipped over -- i.e. a room on the right of the entrance normally would stay on the right of the entrance when flipped -- meaning the dungeon somehow ''inverted itself''. Even the Perfect Guide writers were confused by the whole thing.

** ''OneHundredYardStare'': When Avery, Macy, and Ellie first run from the Slender Man there is a good dosing of this, with them starting in a yard of some sort and ending up, after a jaunt in a building, next to a moving train.