WHERE is this place? (drivers, sail, route, mountain)

[LarsMac]

Is that in Italy?

[mikeyyc]

It's one of the Monastaries of the Meteora in Greece. Probably the Monastary of the Holy Trinity.

I knew all that Bond watching wouldn't go to waste.

[elnina]

mikeyyc, you rock!!!
Agia Tridaa Monastery of the Meteora is probably the most dramatically positioned monastery of the Meteora. Hermit monks may have lived here beginning in the 14th century.Until the 20th century, monks, pilgrims and supplies reached the monastery only by means of rope-ladders and baskets. But in 1925, access to the rock was eased by the addition of rock-hewn stairs.
Agia Triada suffered greatly in World War II and the German occupation, during which virtually all its treasures were looted.

[elnina]

Your turn, mikeyyc ...

[stillkit]

Since Mikey isn't ready, may I step in?

I'm a road which goes from high to low,
Down winding curves, to the valley below.
I have a number and more than one name,
Guess either one and you win the game.
I'm well known to Hollywood too,
In a movie made after 1962.

[stillkit]

I couldn't post a second picture, so here it is:

[mikeyyc]

It looks like Death Valley. Could be CA 190, aka the Nadeau Trail Further south is where Easy Rider began, in Ballarat.

[stillkit]

Originally Posted by mikeyyc

It looks like Death Valley. Could be CA 190, aka the Nadeau Trail Further south is where Easy Rider began, in Ballarat.

You're in the right state, but not the right place or highway.

[stillkit]

The second photo is a scene from a famous movie filmed along that highway, in part.

[mikeyyc]

Originally Posted by stillkit

The second photo is a scene from a famous movie filmed along that highway, in part.

It's a Mad^4 World.

The opening live action scenes, where "Smiler" Grogan drives off the road, and subsequent scenes when the four vehicles briefly speed down the mountain before slowing down and stopping so that the drivers can talk, were filmed on the “Seven Steps” section (also known as "Seven-Level Hill") of the Palms-to-Pines Highway (California State Highway 74), a generally east-west route mostly south of, and west of, the city of Palm Desert, California. The rocky point where Durante's car sails off into space, known by Mad World fans as "Smiler's Point," can easily be spotted today on Highway 74, minus the man-made, temporary ramp that helped the car go airborne.