Nine places you can actually stand in, counted down — and the most famous one was only ever meant to last 18 months.
Opened in October 1922, riding the craze for all things Egyptian. It staged the first true Hollywood premiere, complete with the searchlights and bleachers still used today.
The first Academy Awards were handed out in its Blossom Room in May 1929. The whole ceremony took about 15 minutes — the winners had been announced three months earlier.
A natural canyon turned amphitheatre, holding about 17,500 people. Concerts have run here since 1922, making it one of the largest outdoor venues in the world.
The stack of discs opened in 1956. A red light on its spire has blinked the word HOLLYWOOD in Morse code, day and night, ever since.
Paramount is the last major studio still inside Hollywood itself — the rest moved to Burbank and Culver City. Its arched Melrose gate has appeared in films for decades.
Built in 2001 specifically to host the Oscars, which it has done since 2002. It seats about 3,400 on awards night and roughly 1,600 for ordinary screenings.
More than 2,800 brass-rimmed stars run for about 1.3 miles along Hollywood Boulevard and Vine Street. Honourees pay a sponsorship fee to be installed.
Since 1927 its forecourt has collected nearly 200 sets of handprints and footprints in concrete — the only Hollywood tradition where the record is literally set in stone.
It went up in 1923 reading HOLLYWOODLAND, an advert for a housing tract meant to stand 18 months. The last four letters came down in 1949; the rest never left.
Eight of these nine sit inside a walkable stretch of Hollywood Boulevard and its side streets. Only the sign itself asks you to climb a hill.