You can change the way things are, if people would accept it
You can basically 'retcon' the way things are to any set of plausible alternatives, as long as it'd be possible, you can set something to a different state, however, this depends on how simple it'd be to convince people that what you change simply is that way.
For instance, you can make an old building luxuriously furnished inside, since very few people would have even acknowledged it before, you may also change the paint job. Basically, that feeling you get when you see a new fast food place in a location you didn't even knew had a building crew, but you just shrug it off? Yeah, if you can't get that effect on people, the change won't take place, so anything well known is off limits (like the Eiffel Tower's height), and so is anything that no one would accept as possible, hence the limitations at the beginning.