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10 That Changed America
Monuments | Bunker Hill Monument, Boston, MA
One of America’s earliest monuments by architect Robert Mills, this towering obelisk honors not one "great hero" but the heroism of all who fought in the Revolutionary War, a democratic monument for a new democracy.
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