Places menu in Unity [duplicate]

Solution 1:

There is!

Minimise all your windows so only the Desktop is showing. (For a fast way of doing this press Super+D.

Now move your mouse to the panel at the top of the screen, and click on places.

Solution 2:

[Edit]Apparently the places menu still exists, but they've buried it pretty well!

Since I didn't want to have to kick back to the desktop to access my places menu (I use my external shares pretty often), I added a Home Icon quicklist as outlined in What Custom Launchers and Unity Quicklists are available? to create, but added entries to my normal remote shares like so:

[Passport Shortcut Group]
Name=MyPassport External
Exec=nautilus smb://readyshare/mypassport/