Ojców is a small village of 220 people, located about 35 kilometers northwest of Kraków. It is situated in a rocky region of the country that makes you feel a little like you're walking through a set for the next installment of The Lord of the Rings.

Among the "attractions" in Ojców is a strange little chapel, perched on pylons over a small stream. Unlike with the strange bus stop in Ojców, I know the story behind the chapel.

A bus stop in Ojców. Question is, which came first?

In 1902, Czar Nicholas II issued a statement in which he forbade the building of a chapel on the land of Ojców, then under control of Russia as part of one of three partitioned fragments of the country.

Poles, like most people, don't like being told what to do in matters of religion.

They followed the letter of the idict, at least.