If you are still up for more Weird Midwest trekking, drive to the Twin Cities of Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, and find the Science Museum on Kellogg Boulevard in St. Paul, alongside the Mississippi River. Within this large museum is located a quaint little museum dedicated to the ancient history of fraud in medical treatment via gadgets, which chronicles humanity’s ever-springing hope and bottomless gullibility.  There reside machines sprung from the pseudoscience of phrenology, gizmos that transmit electricity, vibrations, magnetism, radiation and nothing at all. They purport to purify or supercharge your blood, restore sexual vitality, cure vague malaise (Jimmy Carter needed it!), stop nocturnal emission, kill insects at long range, measure your intelligence and aptitudes, cure obesity and assorted other maladies.  Don’t try any of this at home!  For details of visiting see: www.museumofquackery.com.

Artist’s conception of electro-phrenology machine: