The Forest of the Dead

The main thoroughfare of Targovishda is lined with dead bodies. All are Ottoman soldiers, and they've been killed in one of the slowest and most torturous ways imaginable. Each man has been impaled on an 18 foot wooden stake. And from the looks of things, whoever had done so had made sure to impale them whilst they were still alive. Even more grotesque is the method of impalement, as the dead men have been pierced vertically, not horizontally, before being mounted at the side of the road.