The Zilker Zephyr stopped running almost four years ago, and there's still no miniature train in Zilker Park.

ATXplained Live is back at the Paramount in February with a brand new lineup of stories based on your questions.

Decades ago, the public event space was full of life. Now it's rundown, like an old relic.

Does it make any sense to live in a dark-colored house in a state like Texas? We ask experts whether these homes are less energy efficient.

Your grip on the steering wheel tightens as you squint to find the road markings and avoid smashing into another car.

The 10-story highrise in Oak Hill was intended to be an office tower, but then the economy tanked and it was sold to the college.

There's expensive stuff, and then there are those things that just have value.

It’s not labeled on maps or recognized in official documents, but most kayakers who have explored Lady Bird Lake east of I-35 can tell you about the forest in the middle of the water. KUT listener Alex Kane wanted to know more about it and reached out to KUT’s ATXplained project.

After English, the second most widely spoken language in Austin is, unsurprisingly, Spanish. The City of Austin says “other Indo-European languages” are the next most common. But what exactly does that mean?

The University of Texas at Austin has more than 170 million objects and specimens in its collections. KUT listener Matthew Seaton asked our ATXplained project to peruse them.