Possible Clues:

• Deserted urban area
• Its streets are deserted
• Deserted settlement
• A spirited community? Surely not!
• Western tourist attraction
• Community with spirit, though lacking humanity
• Deserted community
• Tumbleweed locale, stereotypically
• German landlord starts to take over vast city -- being empty, like this one?
• Its industry may have gone, but it hasn't lost its spirit