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* ComicBook/DoctorFate's headquarters, the Tower of Fate, is a nexus of parallel realities and exists outside of conventional space and time.

* In ''Fanfic/MementoVivere'', a VideoGame/FinalFantasyX fanfiction, the Farplane is the time gateway of this story.

* ''Literature/JohannesCabalTheNecromancer'': The PocketDimension is caught in an endless moment where its prisoners lose all sense of time and go through the same motions and any change -- even beating a man to death -- slowly undoes itself. Johannes breaks the spell by MacGyvering a clock to bring time back in, which evicts him [[YearInsideHourOutside only thirty seconds]] after he entered.
* ''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'' has the city of Zvaelar, which was ripped out of the timestream by a malfunctioning attempt to travel back in time. Everyone who enters Zvaelar arrives in the city at the exact same moment, regardless of when in the regular timestream they departed from, and if someone escapes Zvaelar they return to the exact moment they left the timestream. Time ''within'' Zvaelar, however, is cumulative, so if someone were to spend three months within Zvaelar, leave, and then return, they'd arrive three months after everyone else.
* The Wood Between The Worlds in the Narnia book ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' is a place so timeless that humans are in danger of falling into deep reverie if they stay too long.
* In ''Literature/TheBigTime'' the Recuperation Station is an R&R spot for weary soldiers in the Change War. The war is fought across vast reaches of time by soldiers from all eras. This is the Little Time; the station is outside the usual flow of history in what is known as The Big Time.

* On ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'', both the Temporal Zone and the Vanishing Point are said to exist "outside of time and space", where the effects of changing history aren't always felt. The Temporal Zone appears to be a naturally occurring green void, while the Vanishing Point appears to be an artificial pocket dimension created by the Time Masters.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', where Zagreus believes it's eternally 7:48 in the Underworld after having a ''sun''dial installed in the very sunless House of Hades.
-->'''Sundial, Imported:''' Tells time using Helios' flaming chariot ([[DidntThinkThisThrough not included]])

* In the CrossOver ''FanFic/ShatteredSkiesTheMorningLights'', The Lighthouse is a crystalline structure floating in the VoidBetweenTheWorlds, a sanctuary for {{MagicalGirl}}s and their friends [[Franchise/SailorMoon from]] [[Manga/CardcaptorSakura five]] [[Franchise/PrettyCure different]] [[Franchise/LyricalNanoha parallel]] [[Franchise/MadokaMagica universes]], fleeing the [[ApocalypseHow destruction of their homes]].

* The Wood Between The Worlds in the Narnia book''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'' is a place soimeless that humans are in danger of falling into deep reverie if they stay too long.

* ''Literature/SeptimusHeap'': The House of Foryx from book 4, ''Queste''. It is even [[LampshadeHanging called]] "The Place Where All Times Do Meet" because of this.

* In ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'', this is essentially where [[BigBad Alduin the World Eater]] is banished to by the Ancient Tongues [[spoiler:invoking the power of an [[TomeOfEldritchLore Elder Scroll]].]] Over four thousand years later, he comes back forth again, and now it's the task of the [[PlayerCharacter Last Dragonborn]] to put him down in a more permanent fashion.

** It's believed, in-story, that a person who ends up in Timeless Space, leaves, and comes back, will enter at the same "time" as they did the first time, thus they are able to coexist with themselves. The "Twin-fit" stems from the danger of having such a twin; if you're seen walking around with yourself, people will assume you managed to leave somehow, and will do ''anything'' to get you to spill the guts. And sometimes end up, er, spilling your guts in the attempt.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/{{Hades}}'', where Zagreus discovers it's eternally 7:48 in the Underworld after having a ''sun''dial installed in the very sunless House of Hades.

* ''Fanfic/PrehistoricParkReturnedFromExtinction'' has [[spoiler:[[TomatoInTheMirror the Park itself]], which exists in a sort of parallel world connected to Earth via [[Series/{{Primeval}} anomalies]]. The area is also implied to have had anomalies opening there for a '''''long''''' time, as there is an entire civilization there made up of people who have been stranded by time portals.

''Literature/TheLicaniusTrilogy'' has the city of Zvaelar, which was ripped out of the timestream by a malfunctioning attempt to travel back in time. Everyone who enters Zvaelar arrives in the city at the exact same moment, regardless of when in the regular timestream they departed from, and if someone escapes Zvaelar they return to the exact moment they left the timestream. Time ''within'' Zvaelar, however, is cumulative, so if someone were to spend three months within Zvaelar, leave, and then return, they'd arrive three months after everyone else.

* The Velvet Room in the ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games, which is always described as a place "between dream and reality, mind and matter", where time passes much differently than in the real world.

* The End Of Time in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger''. Its sequel ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'', which mostly isn't about TimeTravel at all, nonetheless features the Dead Sea, a chunk of an alternate future stuck in temporal stasis, allowing you to walk around on a tsunami. The (B)end of Time itself returns as a secret area to house the BonusBoss.

* The Realm of Darkness in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has no time in comparison to the Realm of Light. [[ActionGirl Aqua]] is trapped there at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', and ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage'' has her experience ten years in what seems like mere hours. Notably, ''0.2'' has her take advantage of this- in the remains of [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} the Castle of Dreams]], she manipulates the "time" in the clock tower to rebuild a broken bridge

* A strange version of this occurs in ''VideoGame/{{Achron}}''. There's a section of the timeline that's hard to reach if you don't already know of its existence: [[FanNickname "The Beach"]]. It's a completely empty version of the map you're playing; a region in the future where causality from the present never reached. This is probably the only ''mechanical'' version of the place beyond time (other video games simply create an extra, perfectly normal level and give it some backstory).
** It's also completely emergent from the timeline mechanics in such a way that the creators [[GoodBadBugs probably didn't foresee its existence]]. The community is still on the fence as to whether this should be removed from the final game or [[AscendedGlitch kept in]], as it has a few strategic consequences (it's possible to smuggle units across hostile borders by shunting them through the Beach).

* In ''VideoGame/SonicGenerations'', places and people stolen by the Time Eater are trapped in a WhiteVoidRoom that serves as the game's hub. At the end, the past and present versions of Eggman are stuck there with no way out and nothing to do but bicker for a good long... er, "time."

** ''Discworld/{{Eric}}'' states that gods and demons both exist outside of time, and can travel through it fairly freely (the current king of demons visits the end of the universe). In theory, this should make them omniscient, but there's so much going on in reality that keeping track of it all is nigh-impossible.
** From ''Discworld/IShallWearMidnight'', [[spoiler:Eskarina Smith]] seems to be able to create and/or use... an area outside of time, but time still passes in the real world. Possibly. Needless to say it wasn't exactly explained with any detail.
** As explained in ''Discworld/ThiefOfTime'', the History Monks live on a mountain separate from the normal flow of time, where it is [[spoiler:or rather was]] always the same perfect spring day.
** In ''Discworld/{{Pyramids}}'', the pyramids of Djelibeybi distort time so that, while people go about their lives, and there is a yesterday and a tomorrow, the days that pass by are all fundamentally the same day, which has held the country in cultural stasis for over 7000 years. [[spoiler:The destruction of the pyramids finally allows the country to start to move towards modernity.]]

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The trope is often described quite literally as beyond time as though one has made a fifth dimensional movement to step outside normal time. Thus the Place Beyond Time may also be a PocketDimension. Sometimes the Place Beyond Time is actually a particular time - it is 10:42pm on the last day of the universe's existence, but it will remain so as TimeStandsStill, so the reason why people can go there and exit at any time is because getting there is time travel anyway.

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* The Machine from ''Film/{{Contact}}'' could be described this way.

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* Time inside the House in ''Series/BeyondTheWalls'' seems to pass normally --''if'' it even passes, that is--, but it [[spoiler: doesn't matter when you entered it or how long you spent there, it will always send you back towards ''your'' time, if you manage to leave.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': [[Recap/StarWarsRebelsS4E11AWorldBetweenWorlds "A World Between Worlds"]] introduces [[spoiler:the titular location, a mystical [[SentientCosmicForce Force]] realm that can only be accessed through certain portals, such as the one in the Lothal Jedi Temple. All times and places meet in the world between worlds, which allows for travel between them. Ezra rescues Ahsoka from the Malachor Sith Temple from two years before he entered the world between worlds because of this.]]

* The Velvet Room in the ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'' games.

* The Throne of Heroes in ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' exists beyond time, which allows Heroic Spirits to be summoned to and from any era. This becomes an important plot point regarding a certain knight in red...
* ''VideoGame/FateGrandOrder'': One of King Solomon's Noble Phantasms gifted to him by God was a "temple" that exists outside of time, similar to the Throne of Heroes. This temple becomes pivotal to the game's plot, as truly repairing the timeline requires taking it down before history's incineration becomes irrevocable and [[spoiler:Mash's revival is only achievable because of its existence outside of time.]]

* The Realm of Darkness in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' has no time in comparison to the Realm of Light. [[ActionGirl Aqua]] is trapped there at the end of ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'', and ''VideoGame/KingdomHearts02BirthBySleepAFragmentaryPassage'' has her experience ten years in what seems like mere hours. Notably, ''0.2'' has her take advantage of this- in the remains of [{Disney/{{Cinderella}} the Castle of Dreams]], she manipulates the "time" in the clock tower to rebuild a broken bridge