Even the most stoic stubble-jawed professor can jump the gun and have his revolutionary new artifact turn out to be nothing more than a weirdly shaped rock.
You would think the birth of the Information Age and greater access to instant fact checking would make cases like these more rare. You would be wrong.
Either by chance or by design, some of the most iconic cities on the planet almost looked very, very different, like knockoff made-for-cable versions of themselves.
