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* On Cortez's ship in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'', where you find a Crystal Star.

* Subverted in the ''Film/RichieRich'' movie. The villain thinks the Rich family vault is one of these, but when he finally breaks into it he finds nothing but family photographs and other such keepsakes. The money is in the bank and other investments.

* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''. The first room you enter in [[KidHero Finn]] and [[NonHumanSidekick Jake]]'s TreehouseOfFun is full of piles of gold and jewels that the pair have collected in their adventures. Amusingly it's just sort of background filler, except for one episode where [[EverythingsBetterWithPrincesses Princess Bubblegum]] breaks in to collect taxes from it. Later it's shown that several rooms in the tree house are filled with treasure. Later in one episode the treasure hoard has grown so much that the Treehouse will collapse because of it, so they decide to '''spend it all''', and just start from scratch.

* ''Fanfic/DungeonKeeperAmi'': Dungeons have treasuries to store the gold and other valuables for CastFromMoney magic.

* The Cave of Wonders in ''Disney/{{Aladdin}}''. In a twist, the treasure is not what anyone goes into the cave for, and is in fact a [[SchmuckBait test of greed]]: "Touch ''nothing'' but the [[GenieInABottle lamp]]!" [[spoiler:When Abu does touch a piece of the treasure, the entire cave erupts in lava and fire, melting and consuming the treasure and trying to do the same to the heroes.]]

** Guildmaster Kadish's vault in ''''VideoGame/{{Uru}}'' plays this trope straight, and it's packed wall to wall with treasure.
*** But sometime in the future, it'll be emptied.

* In Season 2 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Xaro Xhoan Daxos visibly keeps a treasure room with an impregnable Valyrian door, which he keeps the key to on his person at all times. [[spoiler: It turns out to be completely empty, and kept just for the mystique. His considerable wealth is actually on open display all over his estate.]]

* Subverted in ''Literature/TheRedemptionOfAlthalus''. Althalus hears of the fabulous treasure room of the clan chief Gosti Big Belly, so he goes to rob it. Upon breaking in, he finds out that the majority of the money kept inside is just low-value copper coins, not the gold and silver he was expecting.

* Scrooge's money bin in ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' (see the ComicBooks example above) as well as the ''many'' other treasure hoards he finds on his adventures. Oddly, Scrooge almost never gets to keep these treasures after he finds them, even though it wouldn't threaten the [[StatusQuoIsGod status quo]] in any meaningful way.

* Cyril Sneer's gold vault in his mantion in ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons'', very similar to 'WesternAnimation/DuckTales'' Scrooge's.

** Which, considering he was very much a lesser pharaoh who died young, was given a hasty burial in a tomb not even intended for a pharaoh, and intentionally forgotten by Egyptians, this should give you some idea of the kind of ''real'' hoards that were originally buried with the more important pharaohs, and then plundered long before modern times.

* The treasure room from ''Film/NationalTreasure''.
* The pirate ship full of treasure in ''Film/TheGoonies''.
* The treasure room in ''Film/{{The Mummy|1999}}''.

* The player, being the king, will apparently have one of these in ''VideoGame/FableIII''. Also, the player will reportedly be able to rub the coins on him/herself.

* In ''VideGame/Fable3'', you can build up a large pile of gold in your pocket dimension base. Depending on how much money you currently have, the pile grows larger and larger. And shrinks as you spend money. There's even a sort of mini quest in the room involving a chest on the floor and a key opening the chest near the ceiling. To open the chest, you have to make a large fortune of money, enough to fill the room up (and cover the chest) to grab the key. Then you have to spend it all to make the chest accessible again.

* In ''Film/TheCountOfMonteCristo'' a map leads Edmund Dantes to a hidden vault on that island hiding the centuries old Roman treasure entrusted to his late mentor.

* This was common practice in ancient times for cultures that revered their royalty as gods or demigods. Their tombs would be filled with money, food, gold, jewelry, fine clothing, fine weapons, [[HumanSacrifice and often even their servants, soldiers, and concubines]], which were all expected to be used by the spirit of the deceased in the afterlife.

* In Season 2 of ''Series/GameOfThrones'', Xaro Xhoan Daxos visibly keeps a treasure room with an impregnable Valyrian door, which he keeps the key to on his person at all times. [[spoiler: It turns out to be completely empty, and kept just for the mystique.]]