I went to Marfa during my cross country road trip. It didn't seem weird to me. Almost everything was closed because it was a weekday. The only thing my girlfriend and I could see was some cars crushed into cubes stored in one of the warehouses (and we saw them by peering through a window since the warehouse was also closed). There was a fancy hotel open with a few gift shops, so we were able to buy some postcards. Along the way to Marfa, we saw a lot of border patrol trucks and an art installation (it's an empty Prada store).