The Camellia Inn comes by its name honestly. More than 80 camellia plants flower in the gardens of this peach-hued Victorian inn, just a couple of blocks from the town square in Healdsburg, Calif. The house was built in 1869 for a former gold miner, who found prospecting in real estate far more lucrative than scrabbling around creeks with a pan. These days, the Camellia Inn is a charming bed and breakfast run by Lucy Lewand and her family, who say the building's "happy history" accounts for its lack of ghosts. "Since the removal of the water-tower," the inn's historical accounts note, the property has been "poltergeist-free."
