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** The whole Grand Line might count, as the weather there does not conform to standard laws of meteorology; the only pirate known to have explored the entire place to the point of claiming claim expertise in the area was Gold Roger himself. It's not only violent and volatile, but can change in an instant, from a storm, to a blizzard, to a waterspout and calm for an hour before changing again. Islands are somewhat stable, but each is the same climate all year round (and are thus grouped into Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn to describe them) and each of those has four seasons of its own, giving the Grand Line 16 seasons. Cyclones appear randomly, and there are even stranger places, like Enies Lobby, which has EndlessDaytime. Navigation in the Grand Line can't be done with a normal compass due to the bizarre nature of its magnetic fields; a special compass called a Log Pose can be "set" to up to seven roues if you first visit them, and is a reliable way to navigate to them for a limited amount of time depending on what islands are in each route; an Eternal Pose is a superior version, which can be set to a specific island permanently.

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** Morioh is hinted to be this by certain elements early in ''Manga/JoJolion'', such as the Wall Eyes, but this plot point has been mostly set aside for the time being.

* The so called 'closed spaces' in ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'' can be considered a form of this.

* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'' has the Great Tomb of Nazarick, headquarters of the series' VillainProtagonist and his minions. The whole place is guarded by legions of unholy creatures of which every single one could wipe anything from a city to a whole country off the surface of the map, a mess of portals and traps makes navigation incredibly confusing and prone to dumping intruders basically anywhere '''except''' where they want to go, trying your own teleportation spells gets you redirected into a sealed chamber where a {{Miko}} sics an army of monstrously powerful {{yokai}} on you, and past the very first floors, the "Tomb" completely and utterly stops even looking like a tomb. Nazarick was a habitat designed in a game that didn't have to make too many concessions to reality and it shows now that it's ''in'' reality. One floor is inexplicably a SlippySlideyIceWorld, another is a FireAndBrimstoneHell, meanwhile the sixth floor looks like a totally convincing simulation of being outside, complete with a vast forest and an open sky. [[spoiler:Arche from Foresight]] finds out the hard way that she's underground when she tries to fly away to safety only to encounter an invisible wall in the "sky".

* Heaven and Hell in ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'' both use and avert this concept. On the one hand, both are realms that exist in twelve-dimensions, far more than the normal humans of Earth can ever hope to perceive. However, due to their complete inability to perceive what they are not perceiving, the sheer alien quality of the two realms is completely lost on humans.

* Some dreamscapes in ''Manga/DreamEaterMerry''.
** The Border between the dream and waking worlds is even stranger. Looking like a mashup of all the different dreamscapes together in one place and a lingering sense of being watched despite there being no one around. It's also the place that gives all dreams their form and existence and the reason why dreams even exist in the first place.

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureSteelBallRun'', the Devil's Palm is a moving supernatural landscape that appears at seemingly random in various parts of America which has a tendency to ensnare people that wander near it until they die. If they survive, they are changed forever, being granted the power of a Stand. Despite the name [[spoiler: the phenomenon is actually linked to Jesus Christ, who, in this alternate universe, died in America and his corpse was broken up into nine pieces. The Devil's Palm stores its pieces and, rarely, grants them to people who survive it.]]

* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the whole Grand Line might count, as the weather there does not conform to standard laws of meteorology; the only pirate known to have explored the entire place to the point of claiming claim expertise in the area was Gold Roger himself. It's not only violent and volatile, but can change in an instant, from a storm, to a blizzard, to a waterspout and calm for an hour before changing again. Islands are somewhat stable, but each is the same climate all year round (and are thus grouped into Winter, Spring, Summer, and Autumn to describe them) and each of those has four seasons of its own, giving the Grand Line 16 seasons. Cyclones appear randomly, and there are even stranger places, like Enies Lobby, which has EndlessDaytime. Navigation in the Grand Line can't be done with a normal compass due to the bizarre nature of its magnetic fields; a special compass called a Log Pose can be "set" to up to seven roues if you first visit them, and is a reliable way to navigate to them for a limited amount of time depending on what islands are in each route; an Eternal Pose is a superior version, which can be set to a specific island permanently.

* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Ohtori Academy is ''totally'' just a normal, elite private school. Those [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} gigantic school buildings with their odd window placement]]? Surely just RuleOfCool. That (invisible) sword fighting arena [[HighAltitudeBattle high above]] the Forbidden Forest? [[MST3KMantra Don't worry about it]]. [[spoiler: How about the [[CreepyChangingPainting animated pictures and the transforming statues]]? Or [[LiteralMetaphor Literal Metaphors]] appearing out of nowhere in places they couldn't possibly be without notice or comment? Or the resident LivingMemory? Or the implications that Miki and Kozue have lived at the school their entire lives? What about how ''almost no one leaves or graduates''? Or how those who do [[RetGone are forgotten]]?]]

* The eponymous geographical feature from''Manga/TheEnigmaOfAmigaraFault'' by Creator/JunjiIto. There are holes shaped like people in the rock surface. The holes bewitch people into climbing in, then [[spoiler:they ''change shape'' as the people go through, warping the people hideously.]]

* ''Manga/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': Ohtori Academy is ''totally'' just a normal, elite private school. Those [[{{Bizarrchitecture}} gigantic school buildings with their odd window placement]]? Surely just RuleOfCool. That (invisible) sword fighting arena [[HighAltitudeBattle high above]] the Forbidden Forest? [[MST3KMantra Don't worry about it]]. [[spoiler: How about the [[CreepyChangingPainting animated pictures and the transforming statues]]? Or [[LiteralMetaphor Literal Metaphors]] appearing out of nowhere in places they couldn't possibly be without notice or comment? Or the resident LivingMemory? Or the implications that Miki and Kozue have lived at the school their entire lives? What about how ''almost no one leaves or graduates''? Or how those who do [[RetGone are forgotten]]?]]

* ''Anime/IlSolePenetraLeIllusioni'' has the Astralux, where the magical girls fight the [[EldritchAbomination Daemonia]]. It's a twisted approximation of the real world, distorted by the Daemonia's negative emotions, and while Daemonia are InvisibleToNormals, what happens to the Astralux can wreck havoc on the real world.

** The Distortion World also appears in ''Anime/PokemonGenerations'' when Giratina pulls Cyrus into it. It looks quite a bit different from its appearances in the games and manga, taking the form of a series of largely barren landmasses tilted in random directions and connected by waterfalls under the effects of their respective {{Gravity Screw}}s.

** ''Anime/PokemonGiratinaAndTheSkyWarrior'' presents the [[Anime/{{Pokemon}} main anime]]'s counterpart to the Distortion World, the Reverse World, as Giratina's home dimension. Instead of floating landmasses, the Reverse World's traversable areas are made of landmasses, buildings, and even particularly large trees that mirror themselves seemingly endlessly into twisted structures that extend out of view both above and below. The sky is replaced with what appears to be oceans above and below this bizarre landscape, so day/night cycles are represented by the angle and color of the ambient light. Gravity varies in direction and intensity depending on location, with zero-gravity areas giving off a SicklyGreenGlow. Finally, the normal world and Reverse World affect each other in strange ways. Dialga and Palkia's fighting in the normal world creates distortions in the reverse World that spew horribly toxic gas. The Reverse World also has effects on the normal world. Namely, popping a bubble in the Reverse World causes an explosion at the counterpart location and damaging an object causes its counterpart to break violently. If the object is particularly large like, say, [[spoiler:an entire glacier]], this has the potential to cause a lot of destruction in the Pokémon world.