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* ''VideoGame/BugFables'' has a cave behind a waterfall on Peacock Island, which Team Snakemouth must reach using Leif's ice magic in order to enter the [[BonusBoss Peacock Spider's]] lair.

** As did ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' (Both ''Aria'' and ''Dawn'') and ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'' has an entire level with waterfalls in between sections. ''Aria of Sorrow'' in particular has a secret area behind a waterfall located in the Underground Reservoir. It houses a ghost ship and the [[GameBreaker Claimh Solais]] sword.

* Book three of the "The Magician's House" series is called ''The Tunnel behind the Waterfall''.

* In The Literature/InheritanceCycle, the entrance to the Varden is located behind a waterfall.

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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gravity Falls}}'' has Dipper use his journal to point out a secret cave behind a waterfall in "The Legend of the Gobblewonker".

* Niagara Falls has the "Journey Behind The Falls", consisting of an elevator descending 150 feet through bedrock to two portals and two observation decks behind Horseshoe Falls.
* Niagara Falls has an even more impressive "cave behind the falls" -- the tailrace tunnel deep under the decommissioned Toronto Power Company generating station (known as "[[http://www.vanishingpoint.ca/toronto-power-tailrace Confluence]]" to urban explorers). Sadly, access now appears to be permanently sealed off.
* While it's not exactly a ''cave'', the overhung gap beneath Igazu Falls on the Brazilian/Argentinian border rates a mention, because it provides shelter for a huge colony of swifts. These tiny birds are such agile flyers that they can slip between the plummeting drops to enter and leave their concealed nesting site.

* ''Videogame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' has a cheat code that allows you to go into a waterfall, discover a "memorize the sequence" mini-game that's normally reserved for Banana Birds, and get all 85 Bonus Coins if you clear it, but the final rating will call you a '[[NoFairCheating Cheating Chump]]'.
* ''VideoGame/ThemsFightinHerds'' has a waterfall with a cave that contains the entrance to the Salt Mines in the Pummelin' Prairie Pixel Lobby.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' had one, with delicious fish swimming inside it. Oh yeah, and the waterfall was [[UpToEleven 1000 meters thick.]]

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, as part of the series' propensity toward AlwaysCheckBehindTheChair, it's a good idea to check behind every waterfall you come across. Not ''ALL'' of them hold secrets or treasure, but enough of them do to make it worthwhile.

* Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood'': Robin and Little John's hideout is behind a waterfall.

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** A film introduces Takigakure, the Hidden Waterfall Village. Naturally, the whole village is one of these.

* The home of ''ComicStrip/ThePhantom'' is in a valley that can only be entered through a tunnel hidden by a waterfall.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Lucifer}}'', Mazikeen discovers her estranged mother Lilith's headquarters behind a fortified waterfall. [[MundaneMadeAwesome Made of swords!]]

* One ''{{ComicBook/Alix}}'' story has a ''tomb'' behind a fall. The leader of a Gaul caravan dies, and is buried by first damming a waterfall, burying him, and then letting the waterfall resume its course.

* One ''ComicStrip/SpyVsSpy'' strip plays with this; the White Spy, in his patrol boat on a river, sees a black periscope disappear into a waterfall. Assuming that the Black Spy has driven his submarine into one of these caves, he zooms after it.. and smashes straight into the cliff. It turns out the Black Spy was swimming in scuba gear and poking an unattached periscope out of the water.

** Several waterfalls in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOracleGames'' have caves at the top.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'' has an entire dungeon hidden behind a massive waterfall.

* In ''VideoGame/PaperMarioStickerStar'', the cave containing the secret exit to Whammimo Mountain is hidden behind one of Water's Edge Way's many waterfalls.
* Some of the waterfalls in the Mercury Lighthouse in ''VideoGame/GoldenSun1'' had treasure behind them.
** And a Djinn which could be easy to miss if you were new to [=RPGs=].
** Mercury Lighthouse is [[JustifiedTrope justified]] as the waterfalls, their caves, and the entire complex are artificially created; it's a stylistic choice on the part of the Lighthouse's designer.
** Not to mention that there's [[http://goldensun.wikia.com/wiki/Fuchin_Falls_Cave a whole dungeon]] behind a waterfall.

* ''VideoGame/{{Shadowgate}}'' Unlike most exits, this one isn't on the map.

* Most ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'' games make use of this trope.

* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', early in the game, the player must dam a river in order to enter a secret tunnel hidden behind a waterfall. There is a plot-critical key at the end of the tunnel. Interestingly, although there is no treasure inside aside from said key inside the cave, there is a treasure on a support beam right in front of the tunnel's entrance.
** In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil'', the underground passage to the Laboratory (or Lisa's hideout in the remake) is hidden behind a waterfall, which you reveal by closing the floodgate after unlocking an alternate path around.
* The Cavern of the Metal Cap in ''VideoGame/SuperMario64''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Earthbound}}'' has one with a twist: [[WaitingPuzzle You have to wait 3 minutes to get in]].

* Koopa Troopa Beach in ''VideoGame/MarioKart64'' has one of these as a possible shortcut for the track.
* In ''VideoGame/StarFox64''[='=]s first stage, Corneria, if Falco is alive and you've flown through all seven arches towards the end of the stage, Falco instructs you to follow him through the waterfall. This leads to the alternate boss, the Attack Carrier, and opens up the path to Sector Y.
* In ''VideoGame/StarFoxAdventures'', the small waterfall in Thorntail Hollow can be bomb spored for some Fuel Cells and a couple of health items. Later, in Cape Claw, an item needed to open a door is hidden in a chamber you reach by swimming through a cavern beyond the waterfall. You can only get there by turning the waterfall off.

* An early dungeon in ''VideoGame/PokemonMysteryDungeonExplorers of Time/Darkness/Sky'' is hidden behind a waterfall. The leap of faith into it provides an early bit of CharacterDevelopment for the partner character.

** The mainstream games added one in the remakes of ''VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver'', Heart Gold and Soul Silver. There is a cave behind one of the Tohjo Falls, in which a certain mafia-style villain had spent the past three years in...
** ''[[VideoGame/PokemonRanger Pokemon Ranger Guardian Signs]]'' contains a waterfall hiding ancient ruins behind it. The Pokemon Pinchers use these ruins as their hideout.

* [[ThatOneLevel Latheon Gorge]] in ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'' comes to an end in one of these - although you repeatedly enter and exit the cave throughout the dungeon, the final entrance is opened by dropping a huge boulder into the waterfall, unveiling the cave entrance behind it. Of course, there's a MacGuffin and a huge ManEatingPlant in there.
** Also, while there are no caves involved, there's goodies behind the mini waterfalls in the Torrent Forest later in the game.

* ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaSymphonyOfTheNight'' has a secret room behind a waterfall in the caverns under the castle.
** As did ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow'' (Both ''Aria'' and ''Dawn'') and ''VideoGame/SuperCastlevaniaIV'' has an entire level with waterfalls in between sections.
** ''Aria of Sorrow'' in particular has a secret area behind a waterfall located in the Underground Reservoir. It houses a ghost ship and the [[GameBreaker Claimh Solais]] sword.

* ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' has one of these.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'''s Chao Garden hides the entrance to the Chao Stadium inside a cave behind a waterfall.

* Many stages in ''VideoGame/SuperMario3DLand'' will have either a 1-Up or Star Coin behind waterfalls.

* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRenegade'' has one in the second level. But be careful of the [[ToxicPhlebotinum Tiberium]] and its mutants...

* ''Videogame/DonkeyKongCountry3DixieKongsDoubleTrouble'' has a cheat code that allows you to go into a waterfall, discover a "memorize the sequence" mini-game that's normally reserved for Banana Birds, and get all 85 Bonus Coins if you clear it.

* ''[[VideoGame/{{Gothic}} Gothic I]]'' and ''[[VideoGame/{{Gothic}} Gothic II]]'' have such cave up the river that separates camps from the Mine Valley entrance and the Old Mine. The treasure inside depends on patches.

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* Possibly the earliest video game example of all: ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' has an old man who tells you "WALK INTO THE WATERFALL". Doing so yields an old lady who gives you a hint to finding the next dungeon.
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaALinkToThePast'' has one in Zora's Domain, hiding a Great Fairy fountain.
*** And oodles more in the [[OncePerEpisode Once Per Game]] Water level.
** The same goes for ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaOcarinaOfTime Ocarina of Time]]'', this one actually hiding Zora's Domain itself. A second waterfall inside the Domain hides two torches; figuring out how to get fire back there nets you a [[HeartContainer Piece of Heart]].
*** ''Twilight Princess'' also had this, except that it was frozen the first time you found it.

** There's one in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker Wind Waker]]'', hiding Makar in the second half of the game.

** Averted for the most part in ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', given the mechanic of swimming up waterfalls when you have the Zora Armour equipped. With that said, a few waterfalls in the game do have secrets behind them; one of them even houses a shrine.

->"Law of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}:'' if there is a waterfall, there's a secret behind it."

* In VideoGame/ChronoCross, the only way to get the [[MacGuffinTitle Titular]] {{Macguffin}} necessary to defeat the final boss correctly and get the [[GainaxEnding good ending]] is to [[GuideDangIt go behind a waterfall, whose location on the world map isn't labeled or even really mentioned clearly]]. Yeah.

* Possibly the earliest example of all: ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI'' has an old man who tells you "WALK INTO THE WATERFALL". Doing so yields an old lady who gives you a hint to finding the next dungeon.

* ''ComicBook/{{Tintin}}'' goes through one in ''[[Recap/TintinPrisonersOfTheSun Prisoners of the Sun]]'', as shown in the page image.

* The ''WesternAnimation/DungeonsAndDragons'' cartoon series does this in two episodes: ''Valley of the Unicorns'' and ''Cave of the Fairie Dragons''

* Koopa Troopa Beach in ''VideoGame/MarioKart64''.

->"Law of ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'': if there is a waterfall, there's a secret behind it."