The Netflix adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt's bestselling 2022 novel Remarkably Bright Creatures drops Sally Field, Lewis Pullman and one very clever octopus into Sowell Bay, a sleepy Washington town that doesn't actually exist. The whole film was shot in and around Vancouver, British Columbia — and most of it clusters in two easily visitable spots: Deep Cove in North Vancouver and Horseshoe Bay further up the coast.

The aquarium at the heart of the story is really the Deep Cove Yacht Club, overlooking the southern tip of the Indian Arm fjord, though its facade was digitally tweaked using design cues from the Lookout Coffee Shop above Sewell's Marina in Horseshoe Bay. Interior tank scenes, including the jellyfish, were shot at the Vancouver Aquarium in Stanley Park — Canada's largest, home to roughly 65,000 animals across 120 exhibits. The real star animal isn't on show as such: the filmmakers filmed Agnetha, a resident giant Pacific octopus, to bring Marcellus to the screen.

Deep Cove doubles for Sowell Bay's main drag. Gallant Avenue runs through the village toward the fjord, and the production dressed a vacant store as Olympus Realty, with real businesses like Rita's Hair Design and Sorry Coffee (which becomes the paddleboard shop Avery's Wild Tide) appearing alongside. The dock where Tova sits is the Deep Cove Government Dock — although the bench and streetlight were props, so don't expect to recreate her spot exactly.

Tova's waterfront house is also in Deep Cove, a four-bedroom property built around a 1920s log cabin and rebuilt in the 1970s and 80s. It was recently listed for over CAD 5 million (about USD 3.7 million), so it's an admire-from-the-water kind of stop. Other scenes fan out around the region: Whytecliff Beach near Horseshoe Bay for the roadside pit stop, the Deep Cove Kayak Centre behind the paddleboard scene, Blue Canoe Waterfront Restaurant in Steveston Village, Richmond for the dinner with Tova's friends, and Bufala River District along the Fraser River for the scene with Simon.

For fans of the book and film, this is a genuinely doable set-jetting trip. Deep Cove is a pleasant 30-minute drive from downtown Vancouver, and the whole circuit — yacht club, Gallant Avenue, the dock, Whytecliff Park — fits comfortably into a day, ideally finished with a kayak rental or a plate of seafood at one of the real filming restaurants. Just remember you're in Canada, not Washington; Snohomish County only exists on screen.