Some building tops are so unique even a written description likely gives away their identity

Rooftops can be works of art unto themselves, as the above photos can attest. Do you recognize them? Take our five-question quiz and see if their description is enough to give you the correct answer.

— Designed by Bryan Gottlieb; Photos courtesy of Wikipedia

Clockwise from top left: 1. St. Basil's Cathedral, Moscow; 2. Chrysler Building, New York; 3. Dome of the Rock, Jerusalem; 4. The Hagia Sophia, Istanbul; 5. The Louvre, Paris; 6. Sydney Opera House, Sydney; 7. Taj Mahal, Agra, India; 8. Westminster Abbey, City of Westminster, London.

Like anything of beauty, iconic roofs spanning the globe are instantly recognizable precisely because of that glorious top.

In honor of National Roofing Week, your friends at Roofing Contractor and Roofing Supply Pro offer a list of roofs so unique that each has impressed upon our collective consciousness.

We're confident you won't need pictures to help you answer the questions (we're writers, after all). However, within the photo montage above, you will find pictures of the correct answers below.

Let’s see how globalist your roofing knowledge is …

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Bryan Gottlieb is the online editor at Engineering News-Record (ENR).

Gottlieb is a five-time Society of Professional Journalists Excellence in Journalism award winner with more than a decade of experience covering business, construction, and community issues. He has worked at Adweek, managed a community newsroom in Santa Monica, Calif., and reported on finance, law, and real estate for the San Diego Daily Transcript. He later served as editor-in-chief of the Detroit Metro Times and was managing editor at Roofing Contractor, where he helped shape national industry coverage.

Gottlieb covers breaking news, large-scale infrastructure projects, new products and business.