Saying a Grand Theft Auto game is huge is a bit of an understatement. With every entry of the series the scale and scope have just gotten bigger, and that also means that Rockstar (the developer) has had a bigger playground to hide things. Grand Theft Auto III and Vice City were both big games but it was really with San Andreas that they started to get nuts with easter eggs and hidden places. After San Andreas came out, there was about a five year window between numbered GTA games, and that gave the developers time to fill them with secrets. GTA IV was the first game on new consoles (PS3 and Xbox 360) so they didn't go absolutely crazy with hidden stuff and told the first serious story in the franchise, but they got right back on the crazy wagon with GTA V. The story was definitely at the center of GTA V but post-game content got nuts.

Some of the hidden stuff in GTA games are nothing more than just something to look at while others actually have gameplay/side quest implications. Grand Theft Auto V has an entire post-game side quest that revolves around collecting spaceships parts for a UFO.  Others have developed tall-tales to go along with them and those are some of the most insane ones. The PlayStation 2 era GTA games are the main ones with the tales to go along with them and we'll explore a few of them below. Here are 15 hidden locations in GTA games that you probably haven't found yet!

15 Is That A Face Or A Chicken?

Once the game opens up a little and helicopters are available, you can pretty much fly anywhere that's not over a military base and be good. The biggest mountain in GTA V is called Mount Chiliad and a good portion of the end-game stuff revolves around it. An interesting thing about it though is that something is drawn on the side of the mountain. In the original Xbox 360 and PS3 versions it was a face. Many people thought it was of Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad, while others thought it was of just a random developer from Rockstar. So once the enhanced edition of the game came out on PS4, Xbox One, and PC the image changed to a rooster... or at least what looks like a rooster of sorts. Maybe the face was of Jesse, it’s just odd to see something like this changed between versions of the same game.

14 As Seen On TV

This is what you would call a good old fashioned glitch! In GTA V there's a way to get inside of a hotel room that can be seen on one of the commercials when you watch TV. You have to go to a bridge near one of the police stations and basically glitch into the wall near the bridge. Once you do that, you'll be free-falling like you just jumped out of a chopper and you'll need to use a parachute to land in the right spot. Once you do, you'll be inside the hotel room from the commercial. This seems like one of those things that they had to render the room for the purpose of the commercial and that's the only reason that it's accessible, 'cause once you're in there there’s not much to do other than just walk around. Well, you can shoot everything in the room, so you can always just do that!

13 Your Time Is Up, My Time Is Now!

There's a clock tower  in GTA V that overlooks a good portion of the city and you can get to the top of it. Not a lot of people know about this tower and even more don’t know that you can climb it. You'll need a chopper to get there, and it's pretty simple to land it on the lower section of the building. Once you land it, there are ladders leading up to the very top of the tower and you have yourself a nice sniping spot for GTA Online or if you're playing single player and want to mess around with the cops.

The downside is that you’ll be totally exposed to any other snipers or choppers 'cause the area at the top is big enough for about one or two people. On the upside, you can keep track of the time and shoot off a shot at the start of each hour.

12 Press X To Pay Respects

The GTA games are, ya know... pretty violent, so it's no surprise that there would be a pile of dead bodies in bodybags in the middle of the desert, right? In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas just outside of Area 69 there is a man-hole full of bodybags. It's in between a few huge rock structures and there's usually a truck right by it, so that's a giveaway that you're in the right spot. The truck has been backed up near the hole so one can assume that this truck was used to bring the bodies there.

This is more than likely in reference to the whole burying bodies in the desert thing, or hey maybe they’re aliens since all the GTA games have a thing for aliens. The real question is what happened to the person driving the truck? The bodies could be tied into the grave robber theory that we'll get to later on the list.

11 You Won't Like Carl When He's Angry

So this is where the tall-tales of GTA start! In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas there's a well behind a Inside Track Betting Shop in Red County. It’s surrounded by a fence and has a Biowaste sign on it. There’s also a green brick in the corner, so that’s a sign that you're in the right spot.

Now, during the day this just seems like a well in the middle of a town behind a store, but at night the well glows green and the surrounding area has green splats everywhere from the toxic waste. The myth is that this was put in as an easter egg to the movie The Ring and that sometimes when you go there at night the girl from the movie, Samara, can be seen by the well as she tries to kill you. Most people claim it’s just a mod that causes that, but you can go yourself and find out… if you dare.

10 Bunny!

In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City there's a literal Easter Egg in the game... like, an egg that says "Happy Easter" on it. Near the top of the map is the building that you’ll have to go in and get on an elevator. Once you get off the elevator, there will be a flight of steps leading up to a helipad, and you're there. There’s a red light near a window and you can jump through that window to go inside the room and boom, there’s an egg on a pedestal.

You can’t really do much with other than shoot it, like most things in a GTA game, but you can admire a room literally dedicated to an egg on a pedestal! Having a literal easter egg in the game was the ultimate GTA thing to do until two years later with San Andreas, which is still to come on this list.

9 I Am Kang And This Is My Sister Kodos

The GTA games have had a long-standing relationship with putting alien-related things in their games. Well, Vice City was the start of all this! There’s a movie set, InterGlobal Studios, that you can walk on, and there is a crashed UFO near a soundstage. You can’t get in it, unfortunately, since you can’t fly anything outside of an RC car in Vice City... but still. There’s also a moon landing set on a soundstage, which is referring to how some people think that the moon landing was fake. There’s a powerful gun behind the lander so it’s worth going there for that alone.

After this was discovered, players thought they saw red lights of UFOs flying around the night skies but it was later determined that those were just normal planes. There are mods available on the PC version that do let you mess around and fly the UFO, though.

8 Who You Gonna Call? ...Someone Else

There’s a section of the map in Grand Theft Auto III that is simply known as Ghost Town. It’s basically the beginning area of the game where the cutscene of that bank robbery takes place and you can go there once you get to a certain section of the game. You get a small plane, the Dodo, and can fly it on a runway. Once you get in the plane, you just follow the Shoreside Vale’s coast and you'll reach it. The reason it’s called Ghost Town is because there aren't textures on everything, since you weren't really meant to see it outside of the opening cutscene.

There are other ways of getting there, but you can only do those with mods and cheats. There are mods that literally spawn a bridge that leads there, or you can also spawn a tank and turn on flying cars and get there that way.

7 Cabin In The Woods

In GTA San Andreas there is a cabin known as Shady Cabin in the woods in Shady Creeks near Whetstone. It’s a small cabin that looks abandoned and run-down, and this is another area where the myths of GTA come into play. The cabin is near Sasquatch Creek, so that already suggests that a Sasquatch had been rumored to hang out around there. Other creatures/horror movie killers that are rumored to be around are Jason, Ghostface, Piggsy, a Werewolf, and Leatherface. The evidence of these characters actually being in the game seems tied more to mods and than anything but hey, ya never know!

Another interesting thing about this cabin is that at night a glow can be seen inside, but if you get up close to it you can see there are no apparent light sources in there. If you feel brave then go there at night and see for yourself!

6 Kickstart My Heart

So you remember when I said that they didn't go crazy with Grand Theft Auto IV? Well, this is the exception to that, even though this is the only really nutty thing in the game and it is pretty out there and kind of disturbing. There’s an actual living, beating heart inside the Statue of Liberty in this game. It is kind of annoying to get to, but it’s not too bad. You just need a chopper and you have to get as close to the statue as possible and bail out of it on the side with the stairs. Once you do that you're good, and just go inside and climb the ladder.

It’s honestly kind of disturbingly quiet in there. The only thing you hear is the beating of the heart as it echoes throughout the hollow statue. It’s one of the more shocking hidden things in a GTA game.

5 Hey, I Know You!

It’s always cool to see a series look back at older versions to pay a little homage to itself. Case in point: there’s an old building in GTA IV that has graffiti of all the old GTA art all over it. It has most of the cover art from all the games on there. It even has some of the loading screen art on there as well! And if you got the games when they first came out, then you’ll remember getting a poster with unique art on them... it has that on there as well. You do have to look a little hard for some of them since they are hollowed out, but most of the characters you would think about/recognize are there. The GTA Vice City girl is probably the most noticeable since she's fully colored in.

4 TV And Empty Graves

In GTA San Andreas there seems to be a grave robber on the loose! In Vinewood Cemetery there are a few graves that have been tampered with and there’s even someone apparently living in one of the crypts. It’s been nicknamed Spike’s Crypt in reference to the show Buffy the Vampire Slayer. There’s an open grave, pizza boxes, and a TV in the crypt. In one of the seasons of Buffy, Spike moves into a crypt in Sunnyvale Cemetery. He had a TV set up in there and food, hence the open grave with the pizza boxes.

Another opinion for the open graves and the crypt might be the grave robber theory. There are multiple empty graves across all the cemeteries in the game and they are believed to be the works of a grave robber. If there is one then that would explain the body bags in the desert and that truck could be the robbers'.

3 Ice To See You

Grand Theft Auto V probably has the most references to aliens in it of all the GTA games. A good portion of the post-game content focuses on them, a few side missions you can access before you beat the main story have them, and there’s even a scene with Michael after he is drugged by his son that has them in it. The first one in the game though is at the beginning in North Yankton when you get in the car and have to drive away from the cops. Before you get to the railroad tracks there’s a river to the right and if you pull over there and get out of the car you can see an alien frozen in water.

The Aliens in GTA V are pretty vicious looking! They have really sharp teeth and pretty much go full Independence Day when you see any of them in-game!

2 We've Gotta Go Back!

Off the east coast of San Andreas in Grand Theft Auto V is a hatch deep underwater. This is in reference to the TV show Lost. Even though it’s not in a deep jungle it looks exactly like the hatch from the show, it even has a small window to look inside it from the show. You can’t actually get inside the hatch but there is something interesting about it.

If you get close to the hatch then you will hear tapping sounds and that’s actually someone communicating through morse code. It translates to “Hey, you never call, how'd you fancy going bowling?” which is referring to Roman Bellic from GTA IV. The fact that this secret has so many layers to it shows just how far Rockstar is willing to go just to put some a fan moment in the game. Also, it’s good that Roman is locked away from the public and hopefully his phone is dead!

1 No Soup For You!

The ultimate GTA hidden spot is in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas and it’s at the top of Gant Bridge. At a certain point in the game, you get access to the jetpack and you can fly around wherever you want to go. It doesn’t go as fast as you think but it’s faster than driving. Once you get the jetpack you can head to the city and make your way up to the top of the bridge. Once you get there, walk to the side and you’ll see a sign that says “ There are no Easter Eggs up here. Go away.”

It’s such a great slap in the face thinking there might be a cool weapon or some super armor just to basically be flicked-off! It is a great view of the city from up there even though it's foggy from the last-gen graphics.