Mazes and labyrinths are found worldwide and are important cultural works, provides valuable information about our history and the human psyche. In Greek mythology, the Labyrinth designed by Daedalus to confine the Minotaur, the labyrinth, but it is a symbolic meaning, too. "Walking the Labyrinth" is said to be a profoundly personal and revealing meditation by which a person gains insight into his true nature.

Labyrinths, by contrast, are designed to be a strategic issue, which is one of humanity's original physics puzzle games. Unlike a maze, which is designed to be contemplative, but easy to fill, a labyrinth is deliberately difficult to navigate. Both mazes and labyrinths symbolically reveal two sides of the human spirit: the complexity and simplicity of design and mystery, intuition and sensory experience. They are emblematic of the eternal philosophical tension between free will and destiny. Here are some of the most complex labyrinths, beautiful and creative and labyrinths worldwide.


Dole Plantation
The world’s longest maze is at the Dole Plantation on Oahu, Hawai’i. Comprised of 11,400 tropical native plants and covering 3.11 miles. More after the break...

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