James Vincent is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Londoners know it, but not all visitors do: sometimes it’s quicker to walk than take the tube.

As you can see in the cinematic showcase clip of the map below, while the station itself is fictional, it's hugely faithful to the look and feel of London's underground network of tube stations ...

The Great Bear, 1992/Simon Patterson/Victoria & Albert Museum This print replicates the iconic map -- except ... Tate Gallery by Tube (1986), a poster for London Underground stations, showed ...

Beck’s map and its successors have inspired artists, too. David Booth’s The Tate Gallery by Tube (1986), a poster for London Underground stations, showed Tube lines squeezed from tubes of ...