Carrie Bradshaw’s address was supposedly 245 East 73rd Street, but the townhouse that stood in for the home of Carrie’s fictional rent-stabilized apartment—glorious walk-in closet included—is in the West Village. For the first three seasons, apartment scenes were shot at 64 Perry Street before jumping over to 66 Perry next door. The building is a private residence whose owners have taken to great lengths to prevent hordes of Sex and the City fanatics from invading their home, asking tour buses not to stop in front of the residence and even having the image of their home blurred out on Google Maps.

Season three kicks off with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda taking a trip on the Staten Island Ferry to enjoy the FDNY’s annual fireman competition. While in Staten Island, the ladies enjoy “Staten Island iced teas” while Carrie compares the borough to “a quaint European country” where “the American music is 20 years behind and you could smoke wherever you wanted.” It’s where Carrie also misses the final ferry of the evening (though these days, the ferry runs all night long).

All it took was a 30-second clip from season three, in which Carrie and Miranda eat cupcakes outside of this small corner spot, for the Magnolia Bakery to become a phenomenon. In the years since, the bakery has expanded to more than 20 locations worldwide, though the original location at Bleecker Street remains a mainstay for SATC fans and other tourists alike.

Before she realized her dream of becoming a Park Avenue princess, Charlotte York managed this Soho gallery. In real life, this Prince Street spot, which opened in 1973, specializes in photorealistic paintings.

Carrie and Mr. Big meet for lunch at Central Park’s boathouse in season three, well after their first break-up. When Big goes in for a kiss, Carrie lurches—and ends up making them both fall in the lake.

Carrie shops at a lot of stores throughout the series—the usual chic New York suspects, including Bloomingdales and Bergdorf Goodman, but Barneys is the only one that created a special window display inspired by the series.

As we’ve previously noted, the Church of the Holy Communion, which once housed the infamous club Limelight building, has had a long and winding history. Part of that includes a cameo in Sex in the City at the end of season one, where the crew head to celebrate the launch of a new fragrance. In the episode, the scene is just as wild as real-life parties at the church-turned-club have been described.

The New York Public Library’s Fifth Avenue building made two small but significant appearances in the life of Sex and the City. First, there was the season six episode that coined the phrase “he’s just not that into you.” Then, in the first SATC movie, Carrie decided that the NYPL was the perfect place for her and Mr. Big (Christopher Noth) to wed. In Carrie’s words, it’s “the classic New York landmark that housed all the great love stories.” Unfortunately, that didn’t work out too well.

Carrie and her one-time fiancé, furniture designer Aidan Shaw, called it quits on their engagement after Carrie’s fear of commitment became evident. He makes an unsuccessful attempt to convince her to marry him immediately after they attend a black-and-white affair, providing a heartbreaking coda to season four.

The season six episode “The Catch” was filmed, in part, at the Trapeze School’s Pier 40 outpost, which still exists to this day. The episode’s main drama is around Harry and Charlotte’s wedding, but Carrie attends sessions at this trapeze school—and learns something important about herself in the process. (That happened a lot on the show.)

Throughout the course of the show, PR maven Samantha Jones never has trouble getting into the city’s hottest, most exclusive clubs—except for Soho House. The überexclusive hotspot opened in 2002 in the Meatpacking District (before it became, well, the Meatpacking District) and it appeared on the show not long after, with Samantha and the gals crashing the pool—and getting kicked out.

One of New York’s oldest and most storied bars—it opened in the 19th century, and O. Henry was a regular—appeared on SATC in season six, albeit briefly. Miranda and Steve agree to get married there over mugs of beer, possibly its famed house ale.

This Lower East Side bar stood in for Scout, the watering hole that Steve and Aidan opened in season four of the series. The bar proudly proclaims that it’s “well known” for being the stand-in for that “casually hip” bar.

This East Village mainstay doesn’t seem like the most SATC-friendly location, but it appears in the third season as the workplace of one of Carrie’s potential love interests—who just so happened to live with his parents. Bummer.

This storied East Village church—the site for which has held some kind of house of worship for more than 200 years—appeared in the final season of SATC as the site of Lexi Featherston’s funeral. The former party girl’s untimely death—which was unusual enough in the SATC pantheon to get a whole Vulture oral history—was followed by a funeral at the church; Carrie and Miranda later have an argument about the former’s move to Paris.