I walked around a lot but couldn't figure out the country. I refreshed and the next one was on some cliff that I couldn't move so I pasted a list of all countries and then started deleting in a binary search fashion until I was left with the correct one.

That’s excellent

Hah! I was wondering about that. Mine dropped me into what looks like a 3D modeled version of a real place, but sandboxed - there's no way to move around.

(that iframe embed is: https://www.google.com/maps/embed?pb=!4v1686332716861!6m8!1m... )

It led me down the path of reverse engineering these URLs though, so that's fun.

here is the street view link:

https://www.google.de/maps/@25.0897073,51.1817779,3a,75y,268...

That's great! How did you get that?

I was dropped into the ruin of an ancient amphitheatre (the tourist/foot StreetView thing): https://www.google.com/maps/@31.9520096,35.9393566,2a,75y,14...

After a 'walk' I saw flags which confused me, but it turns out this country has a very similar flag to its neighbour.

I had openstreetmap redirect enabled and it broke it for me. I only got a blank iframe so I had to decode coordinates from its url.

Didn't know you could move, but then, why would I when I was shown a beach in Israel.