Found this while browsing .
An article on discover.com talks about photography techniques for taking pictures of real things that come out looking like toys. The images on that page are in fact the 'real' buildings and ships, they just look like they're in a 60's Godzilla movie.
I love this technique.
There's a Flickr group dedicated to 'em
http://www.flickr.com/groups/tilt-shift1-2miniatures/
That is AWESOME...