Tilt Shift

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jodhpur_rooftops.jpg
Image: Wikimedia Commons

Above is a photo of the Indian city of Jodhpur. Below, seemingly, is a detailed scale model of the same scene.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jodhpur_tilt_shift.jpg
Image: Wikimedia Commons

In fact it’s the same photo, altered so that the foreground and background are out of focus. This narrow depth of field is most familiar from close-up photographs of miniature scenes, so the eye assumes that’s what it’s seeing.