Skull Tower

What was it with those Turks? The Serbs rebelled against them and after one particularly bloody battle in 1809 at Cegar, near Nis, Serbia, the Turkish pasha Hurshid decided to take revenge for the loss of his soldiers. The bodies of Serbian soldiers were desecrated by decapitating them. The heads were skinned, filled with cotton and sent to Istanbul as a war trophy.
But the sultan didn't think that was enough: he ordered that the skulls be taken back to Nis and put into a tower that was built by a busy road for everybody to see and consider.
This Skull Tower rose to a height of 3 meters and 952 skulls were positioned face-out, mounted on all four sides. Some of the skulls fell out or were taken out to be buried properly. About 60 of them remain.