Besides 1st 2nd and 3rd person views is there a point of view of a scene where characters are absent?

The point of view of a scene where characters are absent is one of the ways to write in 3rd person.

"It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets" -- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton