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In the early 1920s, HJ started to develop Whitley Heights which was Los Angeles' first celebrity neighborhood. This neighborhood is in the hills above the Hollywood Walk of Fame, north of Franklin Avenue from Cahuenga Boulevard to Highland Avenue. Bordered on the north and east by Cahuenga Blvd. and on the west by Highland Ave.

The Walk of Fame was inaugurated in 1960 when 2,500 blank stars were placed along the main thoroughfare. Since that time, more than 2,300 have been emblazoned with the names of famous personalities who've left their mark in the fields of radio, television, motion pictures, recording, and live performance. A small symbol on each star indicates for which field the person is being honored. The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce chooses the honorees each year after a long nomination process. Hundreds of nominations are made annually, but only a handful are chosen. Also, a celebrity can have more than one star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. For example, old cowboy star Gene Autry has one star for each available category! When an honored celebrity dies, it's traditional to leave flowers or other mementos by his/her star.

This beautiful 3,400 seat theater opened in 2001 to much fanfare. It is now the venue for the annual Academy Awards. Situated in the middle of the Hollywood and Highland Center, the Kodak Theatre cost $94 million to build and boasts state-of-the-art everything!

If a movie wasn’t filmed at the Biltmore, it was probably filmed here — another opulent place that can double for the best of them. Movies shot here include Beverly Hills Cop II (1987), The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989), Internal Affairs (1990) and Almost Famous (2000).

An exact replica of a palace in the Yamashiro mountains of Kyoto, Japan, it was built as a private mansion in 1911.You’ll understand immediately why this mountainside gem was used for Memoirs of a Geisha (2005).

Where John Belushi died of a heroin overdose in 1982

Owners include actor Dan Aykroyd (of "The Blues Brothers") and the rock group Aerosmith.

Where 23-year-old actor River Phoenix ("Stand By Me") died of an overdose of heroin and cocaine. He collapsed on the sidewalk outside of this club, on Halloween night of 1993. (He was pronounced dead at Cedars-Sinai hospital, located at 8700 Beverly Blvd.)

Site of the still-mysterious 1929 murder of oil heir Ned Doheny and may be recognized from Ghostbusters II and The Witches of Eastwick . The backdrop for numerous films such as Spiderman, Airforce One and Indecent Proposal.