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* Toronto, Canada has the [[http://media.hgtv.ca/blogimages/up-and-coming-industrial-design-talent-ocad-video-and-exhibition-0.jpg Ontario College of Art and Design]] building, part of which looks like a floating black and white cube held up by skinny colorful poles --they had to built it that way because due to space limitations, the only direction the OCAD building can expand is upwards, however, the old building cannot support any additional weight because of problems with it's foundation; hence, the floating cube. The city also contains the new wing of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:ROM_Crystal.jpg Royal Ontario Museum,]] which looks like a Victorian building in the process of being overrun by Tiberium crystals. Oddly enough, both are additions on perfectly normal buildings. There's also Robarts Library at the University of Toronto, a building done in the 'brutalist' style of architecture... which also has the misfortune of looking like a very large concrete [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llgiaajbVg1qa0yp3o1_500.jpg peacock or turkey]] when viewed from the front. By comparison, the [[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_Gallery_of_Ontario#/media/File:Art_Gallery_of_Ontario_from_McCaul_Street.jpg Art Gallery of Ontario,]] designed by the above-mentioned Frank Gehry, looks downright mundane.

** Used in a one-off gag in the episode "Grift of the Magi". Mr. Burns watches a short play in his office put on by students looking for school funding. Unconvinced, Burns opens a trapdoor underneath the students, but a few seconds later they fall through another trapdoor in the ceiling and land back on the stage.

* ''VideoGame/CodeVein'': The Cathedral Of The Sacred Blood can best be described as a convoluted maze in three dimensions: the entire building danlges precariously over a bottomless pit carved into the ground, comprised entirely of narrow walkways and winding towers that all look nearly identical to one another, so getting lost is easy if they didn't constantly double back on each other. Several paths end in abrupt dead ends that look like the bridge was broken, until you realise there's nothing on the other side for them to connect to as if they were simply unfinished. Others ''seem'' like dead-ends, until you look down and realise the only way forward is to jump to a platform below. You'll no doubts spend the entire level wondering what deranged lunatic built this place. It's a JustifiedTrope, however, in that [[spoiler:it was created to hide the Successor of the Heart and the Successor of the Ribcage, and is ''deliberately'' hard to solve for that reason. Presumably there wouldn't be a way through at all if they weren't leaving it open for Jack and Eva]].

* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10_Downing_Street 10 Downing Street]] has been compared to a [[Series/DoctorWho TARDIS]] because the interior is much larger than the house's exterior belies. This is because a second house hidden away to the rear of Number 10 was grafted onto the original to provide the Prime Minister with more office space. Plus, there are connecting doors to neighboring houses -- such as Number 11, the workspace and home of the Chancellor of the Exchequer -- as well as to the Cabinet Office, meaning those with the proper clearance can get lost in a maze of corridors and end up in a different building entirely.