What other books and shows have places Bigger On The Inside or tend to change locations?

[DAgent]

Obviously, the Tardis is one of the prime contenders here, along with the ability to change its "Desktop Theme" for the main control room, and possessing numerous identical corridors, some of which look like a crumbling old brick sewer if I recall rightly in the Tom Baker years. But which other shows and books and so on in Sci Fi, Fantasy and other genres have anything similar? Either as a regular space for the characters to hang around, or as some sort of destination to get to, or some place they have to navigate?

Discworld's Unseen University is one prime contender, with rooms moving around by magic, same with Hogwarts perhaps to a lesser degree. Would the Wardrobe to Narnia count?

 

[Astro Pen]

PKD's A Maze of Death perhaps? (No spoiler.)

 

[AllanR]

The Spanish TV series Ministry of Time, has a catacomb under Madrid with doors in it that lead to the past (different doors go to different times and places)

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Howl's Moving Castle, by Diana Wynne Jones.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Door's house in Neverwhere?

 

[farntfar]

Not quite the same perhaps, but the Bistromath in the Hitchhikers guide books, (book 3 I think) which hide's itself by using an SEP field.(Somebody Else's Problem.)

It becomes invisible by looking totally out of place. Your brain isn't prepared to see a bistro on a cricket pitch. So it just cut's it out of the picture, and you fail to see it.
Your brain effectively says to itself, "I won't notice it. It's somebody else's problem."

 

[Toby Frost]

It's quite a common concept in haunted house and horror stories. House of Leaves springs to mind.

Would magical forests and the like count? There are a few stories (I can only think of the film Excalibur, but I'm sure there are others) where characters enter a forest that effectively spits them out in a different location.

 

[Swank]

Any sitcom featuring working class people living in Manhattan shows apartments miraculously bigger on the inside than is possible.

 

[ColGray]

It's quite a common concept in haunted house and horror stories. House of Leaves springs to mind.

Would magical forests and the like count? There are a few stories (I can only think of the film Excalibur, but I'm sure there are others) where characters enter a forest that effectively spits them out in a different location.

Was just about to suggest that. House of Leaves blew my teenage mind. I wonder if it holds up.

The Magicians has it. Harry Potter (platform 9 3/4), and a Heinlein. IIRC, the cottage in The Grail and the Ring uses something similar, but it's more about being unable to focus on the details/wandering the edge of the wall ( @TeresaEdgerton)?

Pirinesi sort of has that concept, though it isn't explored so much as stated. I think there's a Delaney book with it, too, though I'm struggling to recall the exact one. Not Babel 17...

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

IIRC, the cottage in The Grail and the Ring uses something similar, but it's more about being unable to focus on the details/wandering the edge of the wall

The cottage is located in a liminal space between the "real" world and the various Shadow Lands. Since it doesn't entirely exist in any of those places, it's impossible for ordinary people to perceive it's edges once inside. Tryffin has just enough of the Second Sight to get a vague impression, but not enough to be sure of what he sees.

 

[Jo Zebedee]

Howls moving castle?

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Howls moving castle?

Already mentioned.

 

[msstice]

• Mary Poppins' bag
• Hermionie's bag
• Every tent in Harry Potter
• Warehouse 13

 

[ColGray]

Oh, yes -- Warehouse 13!

Lots of bags of holding.

Kings of the Wyld had a wizard with a belt pouch of holding (fun book, especially if you ever played D&D)

 

[AllanR]

Baba Yaga's hut from AD+D is larger on the inside than on the outside.

 

[Oligonicella]

Rock of Eternity, Santa's Bag, every genie's abode, that bus station locker in MIB, many things. ... Somebody's always diddling with space and time.

Sometimes they even create their own dimension for convenience.

 

[JunkMonkey]

The luggage in Heinlein's Glory Road was a LOT bigger on the inside than the out. And the house in his And He Built a Crooked House folded in on itself during an earthquake and, to outward appearances, only occupied a sixth of its own volume.