Dexter's Palm Terrace apartment, seen in almost every episode of the first season, is one of the very few residences in Dexter that actually exists in Southern Florida. In real life, they are the Bay Harbor Club condos in Miami Beach. [Photo via PhotoRene/Flickr]

Rita's abode, like the vast majority of residences on the show, sits in Long Beach, Calif. Fun fact: the palms in front of the green single-story are fake, as is the salmon-pink cement-block garden wall.

In flashbacks of the first season, Dexter and Deb live in this single-story with green trim in Los Altos.

In the first season, Miami Metro Police Station is, lo' and behold, the actual Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Headquarters.

In Season 1, Dexter finds out he's inherited his biological dad's house. In the show, this residence is in a completely different part of Florida, though in actuality, it's just a few blocks from the properties used for Rita's place and Dexter's childhood home.

Here's Angel Batista's home, actually in Long Beach, Calif. The real-life residence sits right next door to the real-life house that serves as Dexter's childhood home.

Deb's beach bungalow sits in Long Beach. According to the filming location experts at Seeing Stars, it last sold for "over $1M," so Deb probably wouldn't be able to afford the mortgage.

Rita and Dex's shared home furthers the salmon/stucco theme of the residences in Dexter's version of Miami, which, again, is 2,738 miles from actual Miami.

Season 2's hidden cabin in the Everglades is actually across the continent in Palos Verdes, Calif.

Ah, yes. The aquarium where Dexter and Lila make out hard-core? Actually the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific.

Police Lieutenant Maria LaGuerta lives in this cute pink house, which, tragically, is yellow in real life.

Assistant District Attorney Miguel Prado's Spanish-style McMansion sits just a block southwest of the house used as Maria LaGuerta's "pink" pile.

Another happy yellow residence: Deb's partner, Detective Joey Quinn lives in this rounded apartment building, which, in real life, is actually white and pale blue.

In real life, the house that plays the home of Season 4's villain, the Trinity Killer, is just down the road from the house that plays Maria LaGuerta's place.

Google Maps indicates that the scaffolding-like façade of this L.A. apartment complex, which plays home to investigative reporter Christine Hill, is no more.

In Season 3, Deb goes to 15-year-old Wendell Owen's house to get information. The yellow, cherry-blossom'd single-story actually sits in Hollywood.

Another sun-colored, rounded set-up: the house of Season 8's Dr. Evelyn Vogel. Details, this way.

The auto salvage yard where Dexter, uh, Dexters the couple that extorted and killed Cuban immigrants is LA Japanese Auto Parts in Sun Valley, Calif.

And, finally, Season 8's skatepark—where the team is called to investigate a body of a 35-year-old man who has, erm, got part of his head sliced off—is actually Burbank, Calif.'s Valley Park Skate Park.