where is the location of "Recent places" in Windows 8?

Question

If you type "Recent" in Windows 8 run command, explorer goes you to this location:

C:\Users\Me\Recent

even this location is feeding from another source; and it is:

C:\Users\Me\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Recent

In windows explorer, under "Favorites", there is location called "Recent places" which contains the newly opened folders;

My question is: where is the exact source which this link folder refers to? (like above example)

Solution

Recent Places is a virtual folder, meaning there's no actual directory in the file system for it. As mentioned by @gronostaj, it's a folder-only filtered view of Recent.

Comments

[gronostaj]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that the same directory?

[wiki]

no; "Recent places" just contains folders but "Recent Items" contains both folders and files;

[gronostaj]

Are these folders the same as in Recent items? Maybe explorer just filters files out.

[wiki]

it's not the matter of filtering; every lnk needs a reference location;

[gronostaj]

That's correct, I mean maybe Recent places use the same folder that Recent, but show only links that point to directories.