Actually, ghost towns are tourist attractions (just ask anyone in Arizona or New Mexico). But then, if they were brain-dead enough to borrow beyond their means, they’re probably too stupid to recognize an economic opportunity.
We have a ghost town in the New Jersey Pine Barrens called Batsto which is actually pretty cool to visit, if only to see a huge old mansion and “worker’s cottages” (it was a bog iron and moss manufacturing/farming center for over a century) in the middle of nowhere.