NARRATOR: We start our journey along the Pacific Coast Highway in San Simeon.
It was here thousands of feet above the Pacific that a young boy with dreams larger than life spent his summers camping.
And it was here that he returned 50 years later, a newspaper magnet, to build a palace to rival the greatest in Europe, Hearst Castle.
William Randolph Hearst owned all of this land.
His estate covered an area half the size of Rhode Island.
Hearst was the Rupert Murdoch of the early 20th century.
Through his three dozen newspapers, he tried to control the country's political agenda.
And at Hearst Castle, he entertained the powerful and luminous.
Before highway one was built, his guests had to arrive by boat.
Once on the castle's private drive, they'd see Hearst's zoo loose upon the hills-- antelopes, zebras, bison, camels, kangaroos, even giraffes.
