Last summer's high gasoline prices fueled the Porchville staycation trend, but many people are revved up for a road trip again.

Among the joys of those extended summer drives are the wacky tourist attractions you stumble upon along the way to someplace else: giant coffee pots parked by the side of the road, museums that house strange collections of stuff, and roadside sculptures of Bigfeet, mermaids, mermen and space aliens.

RoadsideAmerica (www.roadsideamerica.com) is the perfect launching pad for a journey into North America's weirder tourist traps. This Web site has gathered information on hundreds of oddball destinations in the U.S. and Canada.

Even people who are sticking with the staycation concept can use RoadsideAmerica to explore these attractions from the comfort of their desktop.

Each place listed has a "field report," with photos and witty, informative descriptions.

The site documents plenty of stuff in Pennsylvania, including the Coffee Pot, a former lunch place shaped like a coffee pot on Route 30 in Bedford; the Space Acorn, a UFO replica in Kecksburg; the Shoe House in Hellam; the Big Mac Museum, which is housed in a working McDonald's in North Huntingdon; and Philadelphia's Insectarium, which features a model kitchen infested with live roaches.

Those crossing state lines can use the site to home in on more distant strangeness, like the Museum of Bad Art in Dedham, Mass., the Bonnie and Clyde Death Car in Primm, Nev., and the Mothman Museum and statue in Point Pleasant, W.Va.

The site compiles listings thematically as well as geographically. If you're looking for Stonehenge replicas, for example, you'll find them here, including Carhenge in Alliance, Neb., which is constructed entirely out of old cars, and Stonefridge in Santa Fe, N.M,, which is built with discarded refrigerators.

RoadsideAmerica also has practical information for travelers -- directions, hours of operation, and links to nearby lodgings, with prices included.

The site has a "My Sights" trip planning feature, where users can compile a wish list of places to visit and have the trip mapped out for them. From there, they can print out the route or export it to GPS devices.

One caveat: Call your destination first and make sure it is still in business. It's tough to keep this much information up to date.

On the other hand, the site is timely in its updates. It has already posted a description of the San Francisco Wax Museum's impromptu Michael Jackson shrine/tribute.