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* [[KingdomHearts A good portion of Twilight Town is this, namely the Tram Common, the Woods, and the Underground, specifically area 2]]. The exception might be the Clock Tower Station, where lots of crazy stuff happens. Cannot say how many times I wandered around those three places, looking for stuff that wasn't actually there. Mission Mode in 358/2 Days sometimes averts this. Also, speaking of Twilight Town, the Usual Spot is also lacking in, well, anything.

** And the whole truck issue. There's a singular truck in the game by the S.S. Anne, that's only reachable if you learn Surf before having the SS go away. Since decoration in the game was rare, there were loads of rumours about it holding a Mew. The remakes FireRed and LeafGreen gave a ShoutOut to this by placing a rare Lava Cookie there instead.

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* This is actually an important part of the plot in ''[[DotHack .Hack]]''. Since the game is set inside a fictional MMO called The World, there's a map called Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground, which does nothing important so far as that (in-universe) game is concerned. The Map itself is entirely Unique in that it's a church in the middle of a drained, mist filled lake. However, as the plot of the real game progresses, you'll find several important events occurring there. This even extends to the anime, manga, and light novels; it's the one place that every ''.Hack'' media visits.
** It does have actual secrets to hide in a subversion. During .hack//sign it's revealed using a Sprite Ocarina or similar ability possessed by Wavemasters, a hidden Chaos Gate appears which leads to a hidden, upside down, field. The ability to use a Sprite Ocarina here and the entire ability possessed by Wavemasters were removed in later versions of The World however preventing anyone else from getting there.
** The rumours in universe are that during the beta version of The World (then known as Fragment) it was a Root Town or a special event field. What is known for fact that the lake was filled with water and was known as Navel of Lake. Until shortly before AI Buster it was the location of an AI copy of Harald Hoerwick
** When the World R:2 comes out other similar areas are found and they, along with the Hulle Granz Cathedral(The name for Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground) are dubbed Lost Grounds. They all serve some sort of importance in the plot of the series, just none in universe. In-universe Rumors during this time are that if players enter the church at 12:00 real time, they will hear a girl crying, and a week later they will fall into a coma.

* ''[[Fallout Fallout 2]]'' has some areas where the copious amounts of searchable container are all conspicuously empty. But you know that if you don't search them all...
* ''[[Fallout Fallout 3]]'' includes the Dunwich Building, which has a [[CosmicHorror hideously evil altar]] in the basement. Unfortunately, it serves no function whatsoever, leaving players scratching their heads looking for the purpose. It took a year and a half for Bethesda to release an expansion that addressed it.

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* ''{{Fallout}} 2'' has some areas where the copious amounts of searchable container are all conspicuously empty. But you know that if you don't search them all...

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* When the World R:2 comes out other similar areas are found and they, along with the Hulle Granz Cathedral(The name for Delta Hidden Forbidden Holy Ground) are dubbed Lost Grounds. They all serve some sort of importance in the plot of the series, just none in universe. In-universe Rumors during this time are that if players enter the church at 12:00 real time, they will hear a girl crying, and a week later they will fall into a coma.

* [[CaptainObvious In real life there is a lot of empty spaces with nothing in it.]]

Not to be be confused with the psychological study of being left alone in an empty room. If played for terror, see NothingIsScarier

** There are an unlistable number of EasterEggs in this game that take the form of a useless but curious room or place. Some notable example would be Cut-Throat Alley, a small, named alleyway in Stormwind's Dwarven District with absolutely nothing in it, Challe's Home For Little Tykes, a random orphanage in the hills of Northrend where a troll woman takes care of a few children and is rumored to secretly eat them, the crypt in Karazhan, a long expanse of tunnels under the tower with the nightmarish area called Pool of Forgotten Sinners (or something like that) which is a huge pool with dead bodies hanging upside-down from chains, and the Cleft in Teldrassil, a random cave southwest of Shadowglen which apparently only serves as a shortcut for attackers to enter the night elf starting area. There's also the abandoned Tauren village on the outer shores of Silithus, the random and useless Dwarf farm on the eastern shore of Arathi Highlands, and Newman's Landing on the western shore of Dun Morogh. The last is explained as where all Alliance players briefly appear before actually starting in the game. If you stand around there you can see new players flashing in and out like ghosts. They also put a merchant from Booty Bay with two guards here.

** There were many [[{{UrbanLegendofZelda}} weird theories]] about [[{NightmareFuel}} Dark Caves]] and what happens if you walk through them without using Flash. As with many similar {{imageboard}} creepypastas, they were made up from start to finish

** Saavy players will abuse these rooms to do the game's equivalent of LevelGrinding. In the remakes, where stat increases are much harder to come by, these rooms take on a whole new meaning as ''training'' rooms instead of ''trap'' rooms.