By what means? Air, sea, land vehicles can, in theory, be used in combination to get a human to any location on Earth, although the lack of a landing site might make airdropping necessary.
But… maybe some mountains are un-climbable and can’t let a helicopter drop off people. There may be some nooks and crannies spelunkers can’t get into. Maybe some deep ocean crevasses a submarine can’t access.
I’d just like to acknowledge some clever thinking by Diceman, cjepson, eschereal and Velocity for taking a shot at the silly proposal that there must be some basis in that old saw. All answers deserve some additional thought and exploration.
It’s like that other one, “Everybody got to be someplace.”
Here’s one idea- some nations cannot be legally entered. They might have a enclave inside. 
That really happens in the world’s only 3rd order enclave that divides parts of India and Bangladesh. It isn’t some bureaucratic joke either. The people that live in the middle of it can’t get even the most basic infrastructure and they can’t leave either because that would entail entering another country that they have no right to enter.
"It’s surrounded by part of Bangladesh, which is surrounded by part of India, which is surrounded by Bangladesh – the world’s only counter-counter-enclave. So when driving across it in a straight line, it’d go India, Bangladesh, India, Bangladesh, India, Bangladesh, India, Bangladesh. Probably, the ones who were drawing the map were high on ‘Ganja’ :P.
For India to try to provide these people with basic amenities like electricity or water would be a logistical nightmare, so it never bothered. Of course things like road would have been laughed upon. And the people of that place are more laughable. Although they’re Indian citizens, they can’t leave their immediate neighborhood without passing through Bangladesh, for which they need a passport. But they can only get a passport from mainland India – which they can’t get to without passing through Bangladesh. Twice. lol In big mess they are, or may be not."
OK, then, we came up with the answer. There is a place that “You cant get there from here.” with a certain but not strained definition of “you”.
Five counties intersect in the middle of Lake Okeechobee. That’s kinda neat. If you’re a geography geek.
The border between the Netherlands and Belgium in the region of Baarle-Nassau:
24 separate parcels of land dividing the two countries:
Huh. Some of those must be individual private properties? What’s the history?
Here’s the Wikipedia article on the border there:
Everywhere else I’ve read about this says it’s a single point. Not that I’m doubting you. (Stupid internet)
I posted this link about Baarle way back up in post 109. Pay attention next time.
No, actually, they were drawing the map based on the feelings (religion, mostly) of the people living in those villages. They took that into account, and drew the borders to keep families/villages/tribes together with the country that they identified with.
Frankly, if the colonial border-drawers had done this in the Middle East, parts of Africa, Ukraine, Macedonia, or Kurdish area, we would have fewer hotspots and border skirmishes in the world today.
Because, Sagan forbid, someone should skip past a post or fifty while they’re skimming through the thread.
Too bad this isn’t the Pit, or I’d say how I feel.
Eh. The image link is the one that catches the eye, in the setup I’m using. dtilque’s link has more of the historical explanation, so I appreciate both.
Topic-drifting somewhat – but a thing about which I’m curious concerning the Baarle business: I wonder what went on in those parts in World War I, when Belgium was German-occupied, and the Netherlands were neutral and continued “business more-or-less as usual”. Were German occupation troops stationed in some or all of the Belgian enclaves within the Netherlands; and if so, what was the deal with their passing through Dutch territory? Or were Baarle-Hertog and the rest, a small piece of “free Belgium” enclosed by Dutch territory; with the inhabitants presumably doing all that they could to sneak “aid and comfort” to the Resistance folk in Belgium proper? Maybe this matter belongs more in the “General Questions” section of the board.
The one I like is the area around Greenwich, Connecticut. If you go due North, South, East, or West, the next state you enter is New York, in all 4 directions.
The major axis in Japan is East-West rather than North-South. Historically, the centers of power have been either in or around Tokyo (“East Capital”) or in or around Kyoto-Nara, with Osaka being a major center as well. Although Tokyo is a little more north, the two areas are really east and west of each other.
Although Honshu bends and turns north, the major cities historically were clustered on the east-west line. Even now, Japanese divide the country into “East Japan” and “West Japan.”
Interesting. Even though New Jersey is longer north and south , it, too, has historically been divided into “East Jersey” and “West Jersey” (by a line that roughly follows the path of US1 and the New Jersey Turnpike). The major cities of New Jersey tend to cluster in the center, as well – Jersey City, Newark, New Brunswick, Princeton, Trenton. And Morristown isn’t that far north. Atlantic City, with its seaside diversions, and later the gambling, is a sort of aberration. The North is mostly small towns and tony suburbs, and the south is the Pine Barrens.
I tried to link to an image of Japan compared to California but the link wouldn’t take. Try a Yahoo! Image Search for “japan california size comparison” and see how similar their sizes are and how the C shape is almost a reverse image. They’re near the same latitudes, too.
A similar shock comes when you look at the land mass of Europe compared to the US.
Just for the kicks start at one of the red dots at the bottom of Spain and use the little compass at the top to go Due West (you have to go from 6W to 76W) until you get to North Carolina. Translation: Europe is further North than North Carolina.
If you want to play with the Japan-California thing, look at Japan (25N-45N) and California (33N-43N)