- Excuse me, is this church in a field or in a forest?
- Yes.

I never thought such an unassuming wooden church could look so fantastic.

It's located in the small village of Kučani in western Serbia, but even with a car, it's not easy to get there. About 5 kilometers before the end, the asphalt runs out and turns into a dirt road that's basically impassable. The locals somehow manage to drive regular sedans through it—I've seen it myself. But they know where to find a tractor, and I don't. So I walked there on foot.

There's no exact data on when it was built, just theories about the 18th or 19th century. According to one version, the pine trees were hiding the building from Ottoman authorities. Back during the empire, it was hard to get permission to build a new church, so they hid it however they could. Though in such a remote place, they probably didn't need to try so hard.

There's also a legend that it was originally built somewhere far away on a mountain, and then one night the building moved to its current location.