Bernau - Bogensee - Lanke - Biesenthal - Bernau (±35.1km) In our newfound quest for abandoned places, we headed over to the former FDJ (Free German Youth) Waldhof complex from the 1950's, located next to lake Bogensee, northeast of Berlin. A sort of school retreat for socialist youth, the massive complex of buildings was built on the former estate of Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels, who received the land as a birthday gift from the city of Berlin in 1936. His residence and the school buildings are eerie reminders of the history of the city and are surprisingly still in good shape today. Although normally locked up and inaccessible, the school buildings are occasionally opened on weekends to groups of photographers who must register in advance. Hilarey snuck into the theatre building and got away with a few nice shots before being ushered back out. On our way back to the S-Bahn station in Bernau, we took the bike trail through the Biesenthal Basin Nature Reserve, where as dusk had settled, the landscape was blanketed with a thin layer of autumn fog.