There are fwe places that take me back to that time in our lives when we were preparing to take on the world. My college (Va Tech) doesn't do it - everything I remember has been changed - many of the old buildings are there but there are so many new ones and expanded ones it just isn't the same - and the town has changed so much. Where I grew up in Northern VA is all different - even my old neighborhood has changed. I have fond memories of trips through WVa - driving to IL to see my girlfriend (now my wife) - but the turnpike is all different since it went to 4 lanes in the 80's. There is little that gives me a flashback.
I long to hit some of the emotional highs I had at that age when all was new and I didn't know all the things that "don't work". Ignorance of youth is a blissful state. The more experience I get the more depressing life seems to be.