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.

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Austin's hot, dry summer creates ideal conditions for hardening fresh asphalt. So the Public Works Department toils through the sweltering heat to resurface as many miles of roads as possible then.

There are multiple tales behind a cave known as Stark’s mine in the area. It was said to be dug over 100 years ago in an attempt to find buried treasure.

We met Yorkie Louie back in 2019 when a listener asked about the man on the dance floor with a disco ball on a stick. Yorkie left Austin last month for Denver to be closer to family and farther from Texas' conservative politics.

The oak tree near Fifth and Lamar is more than 500 years old. And it's the stuff of legends.