Last week was the premiere of Netflix’s House of Cards, the Washington political drama starring Kevin Spacey as a particularly ruthless and power hungry House Democratic Whip. In terms of content, the show has received mixed reviews so far. (For the record, I’m enjoying it.) But how about in terms of location?

Like many films and TV shows that purport to take place in D.C., House of Cards was largely filmed in Baltimore and Havre de Grace. There’s a good reason for that: D.C. doesn’t offer the sorts of film incentives that many states do, and the city can generally be a pain to film in. (D.C. is trying to change that.) That usually leaves us with things like Live Free or Die Hard, which barely tried to make its D.C. scenes actually look like D.C.

For its part, the first two episodes of House of Cards that I’ve watched have generally been filmed tightly enough to avoid making it obvious when the shots are in Baltimore, not D.C. And so far there haven’t been any really obvious giveaways; nope, there are no 45-story buildings in the background. On the plus side, there are some fun local cameos—check out Aaron Gunn below.

Below are some of the scenes that caught our eye—both of D.C. and otherwise.

The opening sequence features plenty of your expected shots of federal Washington, but also has some good ones of local D.C. This is looking down North Capitol Street, with Bloomingdale to the right and Eckington to the left.

Some traditional Eckington rowhouses, also along North Capitol Street.

The Potomac River usually hogs the limelight, but this shot features the Anacostia River and Nationals Park in the distance.

The National Center for the Performing Arts? Yeah, not so much—this was filmed in Baltimore at the Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall. Props to the producers on a smaller detail, though—the cab has a sticker on it that all D.C. cabs have indicating that they’ve got new meters.

This scene is about as close to seeing down a “D.C.” street as the show got in its first two episodes. It’s not D.C., but you’d have to strain your eyes to know that.

The newspaper of record in the show isn’t the Washington Post, but rather the Washington Herald. These shots were filmed in unused space at the Baltimore Sun’s headquarters, but again, props are due to the producers—the Washington Herald existed in D.C. from 1906 to 1939.

Both CNN’s John King and ABC’s George Stephanopoulos appeared as themselves, but this guy is someone you might know under another name—it’s Mark Segraves, a former WTOP reporter who recently jumped ship to NBC4. From now on, I’m going to call him Aaron Gunn.

Many of the shots that are supposed to take place in and around the U.S. Capitol were filmed up in Baltimore, something you can tell by the combination of the relatively narrow streets, tall buildings and distinctive sidewalks.

Metro! Hey, they got this one right.