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Hollywood Blvd at Highland

Your Hollywood Boulevard tours starts at the heart of the Hollywood renaissance. Hollywood at Highland is not only a shopping-and-entertainment complex, it's a tribute to Hollywood history.

To get into the Hollywood and Highland center from the Boulevard, take the steps up across from the El Capitan, reading the Hollywood stories set into the walk in mosaic as you go. They're quotes from people who came to make their fortunes in Hollywood, from camera operators to mega-stars. If you enter from the underground parking, look around and then take the stairs down to the street.

Pillars topped with elephants tower over the main plaza, a tribute to the set of D. W. Griffith's classic movie Intolerance. Walk to the back of the complex to lounge on the over-sized casting couch and get a photo of the Hollywood sign.

Shopping is optional, but if you parked in the lot downstairs, make a small purchase to get your parking ticket validated (Starbucks, near the casting couch, will do).

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