plugin_dir_url() adds path to url

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For some reason I get the following output from 

var_dump( plugin_dir_url( __FILE__ ) );

http://local.dev/wp-content/plugins/C:/development/xampp/htdocs/vanilla/wp-content/themes/twentyeleven/

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in a local install.

Note: I deactivated all plugins and added the line on top of the functions.php file of the default and unmodified TwentyEleven Theme

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  1. There is plugin_basename() call some levels inside which seems to use WP_PLUGIN_DIR and WPMU_PLUGIN_DIR constants, so my guess would be this function is only meant to be used for things inside plugin directories and not other places like theme.